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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 Lucas make Roy promise in Chapter 14?
(a) To be nicer to their mother.
(b) To go somewhere with him in the afternoon.
(c) To go and visit Zoe.
(d) To stop drinking.

2. What reassurance does Zoe give Lucas in Chapter 14?
(a) She tells him Connor is doing much better.
(b) She tells him she knows Roy will be just fine.
(c) She tells him she took the dogs to the vet and they are healthy.
(d) She tells him he does not need to worry about her anymore.

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

4. How does Lucas avoid going to Vietnam?
(a) He goes to Canada until the war is over.
(b) He refuses to go and goes to jail.
(c) He shoots himself in the foot.
(d) The war ends before he is old enough to be drafted.

5. What does Lucas discover the last time he visit's Zoe's cabin?
(a) That she grew the flowers for the children's graves.
(b) That she buried the two dogs behind the outhouse.
(c) That she kept a journal about him.
(d) That she kept pictures of the dead children.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Roy say at his first NA meeting alone?

2. In Chapter 15, why does Connor come by to see Lucas the morning after the NA meeting?

3. Why is Roy meeting with Zoe when Lucas finds them in Chapter 18?

4. Where do Roy and Darren talk in Chapter 13?

5. What does Darren tell Lucas about Vietnam?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Connor insist Lucas saved him?

2. How does Roy's first NA meeting go?

3. What is Lucas's reaction to seeing Roy again?

4. How does Roy react to Joe's offer to help?

5. How was it that Zoe came to attempt suicide?

6. What is Lucas's mother doing when they get home from NA and why is it significant?

7. How does Lucas learn about the gun?

8. What did Lucas know and not know about Zoe?

9. When Lucas drops the gun into the river, he tells the river, "You owe me one." What does he mean?

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

(see the answer keys)

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