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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 has Cassandra done previously at Rusty-James' school?
(a) Serve food.
(b) Drive school buses.
(c) Clean classrooms.
(d) Student teach.

2. What does Rusty-James do at lunch with Smokey and B.J.?
(a) He eats.
(b) He loses fifty cents in a poker game.
(c) He sits with Steve.
(d) He leaves school.

3. How does Motorcycle Boy get his name?
(a) He builds motorcycles.
(b) He owns motorcycles.
(c) He likes motorcycles.
(d) He races motorcycles.

4. Who ispresent at the fight five years ago when Rusty-James got his scar?
(a) Steve.
(b) The police.
(c) His father.
(d) Motorcycle Boy.

5. Who helps get Motorcycle Boy and Rusty-James back to the apartment?
(a) Smokey.
(b) The police.
(c) Patty.
(d) Steve.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is quiet as they wait for Biff in Chapter 3?

2. Whom does Steve want Rusty-James to meet?

3. When Rusty-James wakes up after passing out, who does he find at home reading a book?

4. What does Rusty-James find to eat in the apartment?

5. What is the name of the skinny, tall kid who tells Rusty-James that Biff is going to kill him?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 10, why does Rusty-James believe that everything has changed?

2. Why does Rusty-James like the ocean?

3. What is the importance of Rusty-James losing his taste for alcohol?

4. Why does Rusty-James not tell people that his father used to be a lawyer?

5. What does Rusty-James think about Biff's declaration that he is going to kill him?

6. What is Rusty-James' driving motivation?

7. Why does Rusty-James dislike Cassandra?

8. In Chapter 10, why does Rusty-James think that Patty still loves him?

9. What does Rusty-James' father mean when he says, "Our marriage was a classic example of a preacher marrying an atheist, thinking to make a convert?"

10. Why does Smokey believe that no one will follow Rusty-James into a knife fight?

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