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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. Why did Tobey have to accompany his father to work in Chapter 6?
(a) To manage the fields.
(b) To keep him company.
(c) To keep him sober.
(d) To work for him.

2. Who accompanies the author at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) Jean.
(b) Alison and Tobey.
(c) Tobey.
(d) Jean and his mom, Dagmar.

3. In what season did the author's friendship blossom, in Chapter 3?
(a) Summertime.
(b) Fall.
(c) Spring.
(d) Wintertime.

4. What does the author describe at the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) Christmas.
(b) The author's dream.
(c) A lake.
(d) The family's return to Florida.

5. How was the author treated by one of the teachers at Southbury?
(a) With hostility.
(b) With adoration.
(c) With contempt.
(d) With loathing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a description made by the author about the pianist?

2. What does the author describe in the prologue?

3. How did the author feel about their arrival in Chapter 4?

4. What did the frightening experience the author recalled at the end of Chapter 2 do for him?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does the author describe the place where he attended school, in Chapter 1?

2. What did Jean realize he needed in order to make money in Florida in Chapter 2?

3. Describe the author's writing style in the first chapter.

4. What happened to Alison at the beginning of Chapter 6?

5. What does the author say interrupted his life, in the prologue?

6. What does the author describe that he and Tobey found together as kids?

7. Where did Dagmar and Donald go together?

8. What happened at the end of Chapter 1?

9. Describe who Tobey was?

10. In Chapter 2, who does the author narrate having a frightening encounter with?

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