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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What does Victoria's mother ask her after Victoria runs to the bathroom to vomit?
(a) If she has been drinking.
(b) If she has the flu.
(c) If she needs to go see a doctor.
(d) If she ate something bad.

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

4. 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) Put the newspapers in plastic bags if it does not look like rain.
(d) Lean their bikes on the wagon.

5. What does Mrs. Steans encourage Ike and Bobby to do?
(a) Bring her some of the cookies their mother baked.
(b) Go with their mother when she moves.
(c) Give up the paper route because it's too dangerous.
(d) Visit her at any time.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Tom Guthrie have to see Lloyd Crowder?

2. What does Raymond do when he looks in on Victoria the first night?

3. Why is it difficult for Ike and Bobby to talk with their mother?

4. What does Raymond give each of the boys?

5. For what do Harold and Raymond wait?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Victoria end up going to Denver?

2. What do Ike and Bobby do when they get home from school?

3. What does Maggie tell the McPheron brothers about Victoria and what does she ask them? What is their response?

4. What does the young man ask his girlfriend, Sharlene, to do and what is the end result?

5. What do the McPheron brothers say when Tom Guthrie arrives with Ike and Bobby to help vaccinate their cattle?

6. What does Maggie do about Guthrie going to Judy's house and what is his response?

7. What do the McPheron brothers find when they arrive home one day and what do they do about it?

8. Who do Ike and Bobby visit, what does she say and what does she do?

9. What does Victoria tell Maggie about the baby's father?

10. What do the McPheron brothers do after dinner? How does Victoria's first night at their house go?

(see the answer keys)

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