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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 does Paul wonder about Joey?
(a) If he should go see Joey.
(b) How Joey is feeling.
(c) If Joey wants to come over.
(d) Whether Joey liked his older brother.

2. What nickname do the children give Paul because of soccer?
(a) Fleet.
(b) Mercury.
(c) Mars.
(d) Flash.

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

4. How does Paul say Erik learned to kick for football?
(a) By kicking the ball against the side of the house.
(b) By playing rag tag in elementary school.
(c) By being a soccer player.
(d) Their grandfather taught him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Paul's grandmother and grandfather call from Ohio?

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

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

4. After the family settles into their new home what does Mr. Fisher say about his job in relation to Erik?

5. What is Paul questioned about by the principal?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Paul's mother's response about him being kicked off the soccer team?

2. What does Paul find out about the problem in question #3?

3. What memory does Paul recall when he starts school on Monday?

4. Why is Paul put off the soccer team and what is his reaction when he hears about it?

5. What makes the noise Paul hears when he leaves the principal's office and what do the students do about it?

6. Why is Paul called into the principal's office the Monday after his trip to the carnival and what does Paul do?

7. What news does Erik tell Paul and Mrs. Fisher when Erik comes home from school on Tuesday?

8. What does Paul think about if Erik died?

9. To what does Paul wake on August 9, who does he tell and what does she say to him? What do they do about the problem?

10. How do Paul and his mother arrive in Florida, and what does Paul's father say when they arrive?

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