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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 is Lucas's mother doing when Lucas and Roy return from the NA meeting in Chapter 15?
(a) Drinking.
(b) Crying.
(c) Watching television.
(d) Smoking.

2. In Chapter 15, why does Connor come by to see Lucas the morning after the NA meeting?
(a) To apologize because he has not seen Lucas lately.
(b) To tell Lucas his father has come home.
(c) To tell Lucas about the gun.
(d) To ask Lucas how the first meeting went.

3. How does Darren Weller get to Lucas's house?
(a) Libby drives him.
(b) He walks the whole way.
(c) His mother drives him.
(d) In a cab.

4. Why does Roy ask a favor of Lucas at the beginning of Chapter 17?
(a) He did not make the track team himself.
(b) He thinks Lucas needs a summer hobby.
(c) He is embarassed.
(d) Darren has asked him to.

5. What street do Lucas and Connor live on?
(a) Deerskill Lane.
(b) Porter Avenue.
(c) Vine Street.
(d) Maryland Circle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Darren ask Lucas to do?

2. Why does Lucas try to beat Connor to Zoe's cabin in the morning?

3. What is Connor's wife's name?

4. What does Lucas's mother tell him about Zoe that he did not know?

5. Where does Connor's kitten like to hide?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Darren tell Lucas about Roy?

2. What does Zoe say at the meeting?

3. Why is Connor upset with Lucas after the picnic?

4. What big idea does Lucas have when he cannot sleep?

5. What was wrong with Lucas's letters to Roy?

6. Why is Lucas's mother so angry with him the day after the date?

7. How exactly does Connor explain to Lucas that he is no longer suicidal?

8. What became of Zoe and her cabin?

9. What mistake does Lucas make twice with Roy?

10. Why does Roy come home from Vietnam?

(see the answer keys)

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