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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 did the person who told the author he lost do to make Tobey lose the game in Chapter 6?
(a) Was not watching to validly say who won or lost.
(b) Moved his rings aside.
(c) Blocked the finish line.
(d) Did not time the race.

2. What was Ligget's punishment?
(a) He had to keep score for recess the entire year.
(b) 40 boys were allowed to kick him.
(c) He had to clean the desks every Tuesday.
(d) 40 boys were allowed to punch him.

3. What did the author and Tobey ride when the author went with Tobey's family in Chapter 6?
(a) Bumper cars.
(b) Go carts.
(c) The Scrambler.
(d) A Ferris wheel.

4. What did the author fear about Southbury Training School?
(a) The people that lived there and the attendants.
(b) The people that lived there.
(c) The attendants.
(d) The hallways.

5. What was the prize for the competition the author and Tobey competed in?
(a) A silver pistol.
(b) Free tickets to other rides at the carnival.
(c) A stuffed animal.
(d) Cotton candy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the person the author mentioned being frightened by in Chapter 2?

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

3. According to the end of Chapter 1, what is significant about anarchy?

4. Where did the author choose to sleep due to his fears about Southbury Training School, in Chapter 4?

5. Who does the author remember at the beginning of Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. As a child, where did the author go in the winter time?

2. What do Chapters 4 and 5 represent?

3. Where did Dagmar and Donald go together?

4. In Chapter 2, why did the author and his family move, and what did they do?

5. What did Tobey and the author do when the author went with Tobey's family?

6. What happened to Tobey after the author went with him and his family?

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

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

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

10. Why was the author afraid of the cabin in Chapter 4?

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