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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 name of the narrator's English teacher?
(a) Mr. Mautz.
(b) Ms. Shipley.
(c) Ms. Lemry.
(d) Mr. Stone.

2. What is the name of Dale Thornton's father?
(a) Moe.
(b) Marcus.
(c) Monte.
(d) Morton.

3. According to what Sarah Byrnes told Dale as he suggested topics for his first article, what did Sarah Byrnes see herself as?
(a) Instrument of justice.
(b) Righter of wrongs.
(c) Ultimate bully.
(d) Champion for the underdog.

4. What nickname does the narrator go by?
(a) Chunky.
(b) Whale.
(c) Moses.
(d) Moby.

5. When Sarah Byrnes finally begins to talk to Moby at the hospital, how long has it been since she was burned by her father?
(a) Twelve years.
(b) Eight years.
(c) Two years.
(d) Fourteen years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What model year is Ellerby's vehicle?

2. When the CAT discussion on abortion begins, who presents their views first?

3. When Jody and Moby meet after Moby's swim practice, what does Jody tell Moby?

4. Where does Huey-Dewey live?

5. Who is the first person during the abortion discussion to bring up the argument that abortion is not murder; it is a choice?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Moby returns to his desk after Jody and Mark decide to remain in the CAT class, Moby finds a note waiting for him. Who is the note from and what does it say?

2. What is nearly impossible for Moby to admit to other people?

3. Before visiting his friend in the hospital, how long had it been since the narrator had been on the psychiatric unit and why had he been there?

4. In the CAT class, why does Ms. Lemry decide that the class will spend several days discussing the topic of abortion?

5. What is the main reason that Moby does not let people get close to him?

6. Why does Moby not keep a journal - even though his mother has been encouraging him to do so since grade school?

7. According to what the narrator's hospitalized friend told him, why were her burns never surgically corrected?

8. How do the counselors on the psych unit know that Sarah Byrnes can hear them?

9. According to his mother, what attribute does the narrator possess that his father did not?

10. How does the narrator describe his hospitalized friend without spirit in her eyes?

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