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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the author's father die?
(a) In his sleep.
(b) From a boating accident.
(c) From cancer.
(d) From a car accident.

2. According to the end of Chapter 1, what is significant about anarchy?
(a) It is defined and refuted.
(b) It has control.
(c) The author presents a paradoxical view of it.
(d) Nothing.

3. What does the author mention his life was often interrupted by, in the prologue?
(a) His mom.
(b) Visits from his family.
(c) Drunken visits to London.
(d) Drunken visits to New York.

4. What did the author and Tobey compete in, in Chapter 6?
(a) Home run derby.
(b) A race.
(c) Ring Toss.
(d) A hot dog eating contest.

5. What was the author in constant fear of in Chapter 4?
(a) Being in the dark.
(b) Being killed.
(c) Being eaten.
(d) Being left alone.

6. Who does the author remember at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) His mother.
(b) His first wife.
(c) His first house.
(d) His father.

7. Where does the prologue take place?
(a) New York.
(b) England.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Ft. Lauderdale.

8. According to Chapter 3, what did the author and his friend do in their free time?
(a) Camp.
(b) Go to baseball games.
(c) Explore the wilderness.
(d) Play house.

9. What did the author's fear drive him to do?
(a) Watch TV.
(b) Leave the cabin.
(c) Sleep with the lights on.
(d) Go to work with his parents.

10. What does the author describe at the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) Vivid recollections of leaving Freemont.
(b) His thought process.
(c) A dream.
(d) His education.

11. Who of the following is NOT mentioned being with the author at the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) Alison.
(b) Jean.
(c) Tobey.
(d) His mother.

12. Where was the author's apartment in Chapter 5?
(a) Maine.
(b) Ft. Lauderdale.
(c) New York.
(d) Connecticut.

13. How does Chapter 7 end?
(a) With a narration about a bike ride.
(b) With the author running away.
(c) With a fight between Jean and Dagmar.
(d) With a fight between Tobey and the author.

14. Which of the following does the author NOT use to describe the sun in Chapter 6?
(a) Scorching.
(b) White.
(c) Shapeless.
(d) Hot.

15. Where was the experimental boarding school the author describes in Chapter 1?
(a) England.
(b) Ft. Lauderdale.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Jacksonville, Fl.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who accompanies the author at the beginning of Chapter 4?

2. Where were the series of joke items purchased that were played on Jean by the pianist?

3. Why were the author and his family traveling at the beginning of Chapter 2?

4. How does the author describe his time with his friend in Chapter 3?

5. What did the person who told the author he lost force him to do in Chapter 6?

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