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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can Paul not understand about Erik and Arthur?
(a) How they can make fun of Joey.
(b) Why they are there instead of at Mike's house.
(c) Laughing about Mike's death.
(d) Why they are friends.

2. What are Paul and Mrs. Fisher shown the school uses for classrooms?
(a) A concrete building that used to be apartments.
(b) Quonset huts.
(c) Portable buildings.
(d) An old army armory.

3. Who sees the smoke at the house Sunday morning first?
(a) Mrs. Fisher.
(b) Paul.
(c) Erik.
(d) Mr. Fisher.

4. What does Paul and his mother have to fill out for him to start school?
(a) Insurance forms for playing sports.
(b) Request for additional funding.
(c) Immunization record.
(d) An individualized education plan.

5. What time does Mrs. Fisher think they will arrive in Tangerine?
(a) By nine at night.
(b) She doesn't have any idea when they might arrive.
(c) By four in the afternoon.
(d) Somewhere around midnight.

6. Where does Paul's mother want to send him to school?
(a) St. Anthony's.
(b) Tangerine Middle School.
(c) She wants to home school him.
(d) Saint John's Episcopal School.

7. What happens when a sinkhole forms on the school grounds?
(a) Some of the kids jump into it for fun.
(b) The tennis courts are ruined.
(c) Some of the portable buildings go into it.
(d) Nothing, it is in the middle of the field.

8. What does Paul realize about Erik and Arthur related to Mike's death?
(a) Mike's father will no longer coach.
(b) Arthur will probably quit the team.
(c) Their positions on the football team will be better.
(d) Erik might become a quarterback.

9. Where does Mr. Fisher work?
(a) Tangerine County Waste Management.
(b) Tangerine County Electrical Power Plant.
(c) Civil Engineering Department of Tangerine County.
(d) Tangerine County Roads and Parks Department.

10. Why does Joey invite Paul to a carnival?
(a) Joey's mother doesn't want him to stay at home.
(b) Joey has extra money to spend.
(c) Joey's father does not want him around.
(d) Joey needs some distraction from his grief.

11. What does Paul do when conversation about Erik and football starts?
(a) Laughs at Erik.
(b) Sits in the chair and sulks.
(c) Struts around the living room.
(d) Goes to his bedroom.

12. What does Mr. Costello do when Erik and Mr. Fisher come home?
(a) Talks to them about the weather.
(b) Offers to set them up with a football scout.
(c) Go to his home and get his son.
(d) Leave.

13. What is Paul questioned about by the principal?
(a) What he did at the carnival.
(b) If Joey was at the carnival with Paul.
(c) What time Paul left the carnival.
(d) Whether he still wants to play soccer.

14. What does Mrs. Fisher ask the parents of the football players to do?
(a) Disband the football team.
(b) Have football practice only on Saturday.
(c) Change football practice.
(d) Stop football practice until after Mike's funeral.

15. What does Erik tell kids when they ask why Paul wears such thick glasses?
(a) Paul was hit in the head with a baseball bat.
(b) Paul stared at a solar eclipse too long.
(c) Paul was born that way.
(d) They don't know why his sight is so bad.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Paul's mother do Sunday morning after she goes outside?

2. Who does Paul think Erik will date?

3. Why does Mrs. Fisher want to go through the house before she and Paul leave at the opening of the book?

4. Where are Erik and Mr. Fisher on Sunday?

5. On September 5, what is Paul doing when Erik arrives home with Arthur?

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