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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 think about his vision impairment and Erik?
(a) Erik is part of the secret.
(b) Erik was gone the day Paul lost so much of his sight.
(c) Erik is happy Paul is almost blind.
(d) Erik could care less whether Paul is blind.

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

3. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when a sinkhole forms on the school grounds?

2. What is the name of the high school football team?

3. What does Paul do after the thunderstorm?

4. What time of the morning does Paul and his mother leave their former city?

5. Where does Mr. Fisher work?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do the parents of the football players decide to do and how does the coach respond to their suggestion?

3. What does Paul say about how his mother has arranged their move?

4. What boy Paul's age does Paul meet and what does he see while Paul watches soccer practice?

5. What does Paul's mother think will happen about Mike's death and what actually happens? What does Paul wonder about Joey?

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

7. Where does Paul's mother take him on Monday and what does she do there?

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

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

10. What changes in Tangerine does Paul foresee and what does he think about himself and changes?

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