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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the boys forbidden to do at their aunt's house?
(a) Watch television.
(b) Eat too many sweets.
(c) Ask friends over.
(d) Leave the apartment.

2. What does Mrs. Beckman do when she begins to speak at the school board meeting?
(a) Complains about the school buses.
(b) Asks that Tom Guthrie be arrested immediately.
(c) Launches into aggressive accusations.
(d) Whines about discrimination against her son.

3. What is in the photo album Mrs. Stearns shows the boys?
(a) Post cards from around the world.
(b) Mostly her father, mother and sister.
(c) Mostly her son who died in the war.
(d) Pictures of her wedding.

4. Why does Tom leave the party?
(a) He is meeting Judy at a bar.
(b) He has to be home for Ike and Bobby.
(c) He does not like parties.
(d) He has to take Ike and Bobby to their grandmother's house.

5. What does Victoria do in the car with the McPheron brothers?
(a) Tells them about the party.
(b) Tells them her mother is threatening her.
(c) Says she doesn't want to go back to school.
(d) Tells them about Russell at school.

6. What do Ike and Bobby tell Mrs. Stearns is the reason they have visited?
(a) They are afraid she doesn't have any friends.
(b) They hope for some good home-cooked food.
(c) They lost their puppy.
(d) They don't say.

7. What does Tom bring to a school board meeting?
(a) He brings a video of the day Russell hit him.
(b) His grade book.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A long list of complaints by students against Russell.

8. What does Victoria ask the McPheron brothers?
(a) If she can live with them again.
(b) Victoria won't get out of the car.
(c) If she can borrow their car.
(d) The dogs won't let them out of the car.

9. What does Victoria do when the McPheron brothers go to round up cattle when they come home from shopping?
(a) Vacuums the house.
(b) Cooks dinner.
(c) Does the laundry.
(d) Irons their shirts.

10. Where are Guthrie and Maggie dancing?
(a) At a school dance.
(b) In a bar.
(c) At a party.
(d) At Tom's house.

11. What does the chairman tell Mrs. Beckman?
(a) Her son is not being discriminated against.
(b) They have to park the buses across from her house.
(c) They don't like to interfere in a teacher's classroom.
(d) Tom Guthrie is filing charges against Russell.

12. What does Victoria first tell the McPheron brothers?
(a) About the ranch being boring.
(b) About talking to Maggie.
(c) About going to a party.
(d) About her departure with Dwayne.

13. What does Dwayne tell Victoria?
(a) He heard she was living with Maggie Jones.
(b) He heard she was looking for him.
(c) He heard she had an abortion.
(d) He heard she was pregnant and living with two old men.

14. What does the sheriff say to Tom and the Beckmans?
(a) The sheriff is not involved in the incident.
(b) To come to the station immediately.
(c) To stay away from each other.
(d) Nothing, he arrests Russell.

15. What does Tom do when he leaves Maggie's house?
(a) Delivers Ike and Bobby's papers.
(b) Goes horseback riding.
(c) Goes out to the McPherons.
(d) Goes to school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Harold suggest the three of them do?

2. What does Victoria ask Dwayne when she sees him?

3. What kind of job does Judy have at the school?

4. Where is Guthrie attending a party?

5. How do Ike and Bobby feel when their father picks them up at their aunt's house?

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