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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 the last thing Lucas's mother says to him?
(a) "I know I wasn't a good mother, and I'm sorry."
(b) "I was always disappointed that you never married Libby Weller."
(c) "I want you to stop seeing that Zoe Dinsmore woman."
(d) "Please make sure to take care of your brother."

2. What does Roy confess to at the Monday night meeting in Chapter 17?
(a) Stealing another soldier's identity.
(b) Getting a Vietnamese girl pregnant.
(c) Shooting himself in the foot.
(d) Killing a Vietnamese soldier.

3. Why does Lucas never leave Ashby?
(a) His conviction would keep him from getting a job anywhere else.
(b) He is too attached to Zoe to leave her.
(c) He needed to look out for Roy and make sure he did not start doing drugs again.
(d) He promised Connor he would never leave.

4. What is the last thing Lucas says?
(a) "Nothing in my life has ever been a mistake."
(b) "I'm sorry that Connor didn't get to live longer."
(c) "I still miss Zoe every single day."
(d) "Roy and I had never been closer than at that exact moment."

5. Who does Connor say saved his life?
(a) Zoe.
(b) Lucas.
(c) Dotty.
(d) Roy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What message did Zoe once ask Roy to take to the family of one of the dead children?

3. What does Roy tell Lucas their mother has forgotten to do in Chapter 13?

4. How does Lucas actually get rid of the backpack in Chapter 16?

5. What street do Lucas and Connor live on?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Roy come home from Vietnam?

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

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

5. How does Roy know Zoe?

6. How does Lucas learn about the gun?

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

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

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

10. What advice does Zoe give Lucas when he says he has got too many people to save?

(see the answer keys)

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