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

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

3. What time of the morning does Paul and his mother leave their former city?
(a) Six.
(b) Nine.
(c) Five.
(d) Eight.

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

5. What does Mrs. Fisher expect will happen on September 6 due to Mike's death?
(a) The kids at school will be very depressed.
(b) The funeral will be on Saturday.
(c) School will be canceled.
(d) Football will be stopped for a couple of weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Joey do when his brother died?

2. How does Paul say Erik learned to kick for football?

3. Who does Paul think Erik will date?

4. What is the name of the funeral home where Mike is laid out?

5. What does Paul realize when he watches the Middle School soccer practice?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Paul wear when he plays soccer and what do the kids say about them?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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