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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ike and Bobby's mother say when the two boys check on her?
(a) She cries and says she never wants to see them in there again.
(b) She tells them a story.
(c) She tells them she loves them very much.
(d) She gives vague answers to their questions.

2. What do Ike and Bobby wonder when they get home?
(a) If their dad has left them some after-school chores.
(b) If the cable is working again.
(c) If their mother has been in her room all day.
(d) If their nintendo has been fixed.

3. What does Crowder say about Beckman?
(a) That he is not expected to live much longer.
(b) That he is going to be valdictorian.
(c) That none of the teachers like him.
(d) That Bobby is the boy's only friend.

4. Where does Maggie Jones drive?
(a) The Guthrie ranch.
(b) To find Dwayne.
(c) The McPherons' ranch.
(d) To talk to Ike and Bobby's mother.

5. Why is Guthrie in Crowder's office with the Beckmans?
(a) They are filing a lawsuit against him.
(b) They want to help their son pass school.
(c) They want to know how their son is doing in school.
(d) Russell has acted inappropriately.

6. What does Ralph Black not want the boys to do?
(a) Fold the newspapers with the front page out.
(b) Fold the newspapers with the front page inward.
(c) Lean their bikes on the wagon.
(d) Put the newspapers in plastic bags if it does not look like rain.

7. Where does Victoria work?
(a) Holt cafe.
(b) Nowhere.
(c) Burger Brawy.
(d) Taste n' Freeze.

8. Where do Ike and Bobby go after doing their chores on Saturday morning?
(a) To the movies.
(b) To game arcade.
(c) To collect their fees from their newspaper customers.
(d) To help their grandfather bale hay.

9. What does Crowder tell Guthrie to do after the Beckmans leave?
(a) To call his union representative.
(b) Give Russell some extra tutoring.
(c) Pass Russell.
(d) To flunk Russell.

10. Why do Ike and Bobby go to the train station?
(a) To get newspapers for their delivery route.
(b) To take the metro train to school.
(c) To watch a train with a new type of diesel engine come into the station.
(d) To watch for their father.

11. What does Ralph Black ask Ike and Bobby?
(a) If they want to quit.
(b) If they want to add a paper route.
(c) If their father knows they are always late.
(d) Why they are late.

12. What does Victoria find when she gets home after work?
(a) Her mother left town.
(b) She is locked out.
(c) The house has been broken into.
(d) The house is on fire.

13. Where do Ike and Bobby take a classmate?
(a) To their home to make sandwiches.
(b) To the woods to show the student their tree house.
(c) To the lake.
(d) To the house where they see the teens having sex.

14. What does Maggie notice about the McPherons' house when they enter it?
(a) It is very large.
(b) It has been cleaned up.
(c) It is very dirty.
(d) It is very small.

15. What does Mrs. Beckman tend to use when she talks?
(a) Bad grammar.
(b) A lot of legal terms.
(c) An English accent.
(d) Profanity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Victoria run out of the classroom?

2. How is the time the boys spend with their mother before she leaves?

3. What request does Ella have about Ike and Bobby?

4. Where is Mrs. Stearn's family?

5. What do the boys ask about the McPheron brothers?

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