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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. How does Owen develop the large muscles that he has?
(a) Working out at wrestling practice.
(b) Doing pullups in his dorm room.
(c) Spending time in the gym.
(d) Working in the quarry.

2. What is Owen unable to do in military training?
(a) Complete 150 push-ups.
(b) Climb a 20 foot rope ladder.
(c) Scale a 12 foot wall.
(d) Respect his authorities.

3. For his new sport, Owen needs a partner to help him. Who does he choose?
(a) Harry Hoyt.
(b) Hester Eastman.
(c) Dan Needham.
(d) Johnny.

4. How does Owen respond when Dan suggests that he invite his parents to the play performance?
(a) He says "no."
(b) He says "yes."
(c) He is unsure whether his parents will want to come.
(d) He is unsure how they will respond to the play's subject matter.

5. Who/what does Owen think that the nuns torture?
(a) Tadpoles.
(b) The students.
(c) Laboratory rats.
(d) Each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of Johnny's body does Owen cut off?

2. What does Johnny believe makes Owen attractive to girls?

3. When Owen repeats the line, "God has taken your mother. My hands were the instrument. God has taken my hands. I am God's instrument," how does Johnny respond?

4. With everything that goes wrong in the pageant, how does the audience respond to the show?

5. What does Owen call the column that he writes for the Gravesend newspaper?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the letter that Johnny receives from the draft board say?

2. What happens when Owen, as The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, takes Scrooge to his grave?

3. Who is Katherine Keeling?

4. What does Tabitha's old singing teacher tell the boys?

5. How does Barb Wiggin treat Owen, and what is his reaction?

6. What has Owen done to prepare the amputation blade?

7. As an adult, what does Johnny overhear his friend Katherine Keener's husband saying about him?

8. What does Owen look like when he is 16?

9. What goes wrong during the Christmas pageant?

10. How do the boys start their trip to Boston?

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