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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following words best describes how Mason reacts to Cole's accusations?
(a) Mostly calm and collected
(b) Mostly hostile and angry
(c) Mostly indignant and repulsed
(d) Mostly upset and repentent

2. How do Johnny and Tex feel after they have both made their attempts?
(a) Worse
(b) Sad
(c) Better
(d) Jubilant

3. How does Tex get out of the situation at the sporting goods store?
(a) Goes with the police
(b) Agrees to work to pay off any costs
(c) Waits for Mason to come and vouch for his character
(d) Talks his way out of it

4. Where does Mason announce that he has to go?
(a) Away to find Pop
(b) Basketball game
(c) School
(d) City

5. Why does Tex feel the hitchhiker died?
(a) Because Tex and Mason were arguing
(b) Because he escaped from prison
(c) Because he slammed on the brakes
(d) Because they picked him up

6. Which character is accused of ruining the happy mood when Tex, Mason, and Lem share the news?
(a) Jamie
(b) Johnny
(c) Cole
(d) Lem

7. Why do Tex, Mason and Lem go to the Collins' home?
(a) To share the news
(b) To see Jamie
(c) To spite Cole
(d) To visit with Charlie

8. Where do Tex and Mason decide to go before they leave the city and head home?
(a) To eat dinner with Jamie and her friends
(b) Lem's house
(c) To the drug store to get Mason's medicines
(d) Shopping for fishing supplies

9. Which word best describes how Tex feels when Cole is around?
(a) Respectful
(b) Afraid
(c) Relieved
(d) Ashamed

10. Which word sums up Tex's experiences with women while Mason is at the hospital?
(a) Exciting
(b) Embarrassing
(c) Exhilerating
(d) Cool

11. How does Tex feel about the conversation about staying or going after his friends leave the fortune teller?
(a) Unhappy
(b) Excited
(c) Nervous
(d) Saddened

12. What does Tex say has happened?
(a) Johnny's bike tires need air
(b) Johnny's bike couldn't do it
(c) Johnny was chicken
(d) Johnny hit a bump

13. Why is Tex sad when they leave Tex's house?
(a) Because he thinks Mason will be too sick for Tex to make it back to the city
(b) Because Lem will no longer want to see Tex or Mason
(c) Because he thinks he will never see him again
(d) Because he thinks Lem will be killed selling drugs

14. Which word best describes how Tex feels when he first wakes up in the morning?
(a) Sullen
(b) Relieved
(c) Angry
(d) Hungover

15. What forces Johnny and Tex to finally start speaking to each other again?
(a) Pop returning home to be with Tex and Mason
(b) Cole going out of town
(c) Johnny's injury on his motorbike
(d) Jamie's threatening to no longer speak to Tex

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tex end the crisis with the hitchhiker?

2. What does Mason chastise Tex for?

3. Who did the hitchhiker remind Tex of?

4. Which word best describes Mason's medical condition?

5. How did Lem's parents feel about his decision to leave school and get married?

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