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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Tex think Mason should be relieved and happy?
(a) He earned three offers of basketball scholarships
(b) Tex and Johnny were not expelled
(c) Pop is back for good
(d) He obtained all As on his report card

2. What does one of the fans of the other team do to make Tex jump him?
(a) Make a nasty comment about Mason
(b) Make a nsaty comment about Pop
(c) Make a nasty comment about Tex
(d) Make a nasty comment about Jamie

3. Why did the man with the summer job decide to give the job to Tex?
(a) Because Pop paid him to wait for Tex to heal
(b) Because he owed the police a favor
(c) Because he saw him at the fair working with horses
(d) Because he promised Miss Johnson

4. What do Mason and Cole discuss when Cole arrives at the vice principal's office?
(a) What punishment the school should dish out
(b) Whose fault it is this time
(c) Who needed to take care of the situation
(d) Why Mason is there instead of Pop

5. How long does Mason think Pop will stay?
(a) A few weeks
(b) A few months
(c) A few days
(d) A few years

6. Why doesn't Tex stop Lem from making one stop on his way back to the city?
(a) Because he is looking for a fight
(b) Because he hopes Lem will stop at his house
(c) Because he has no control over what Lem does
(d) Because he is emotionally distraught

7. Where did Mason attack Lem?
(a) In the parking lot
(b) At the phone booth
(c) In the police station
(d) In the waiting room

8. What do Mason and Tex do to relax?
(a) Go to bed early
(b) Smoke marijuana
(c) Shoot at targets
(d) Get drunk

9. What does Mason tell Tex about college?
(a) He says he can't afford to go to college anymore
(b) He says he might not go and instead stay and work
(c) He says he can't decide which one to go to
(d) He says he can't wait to go

10. Why does Tex say he will never shoot anything again?
(a) Because he is afraid of guns
(b) Because he no longer has the guts to kill things
(c) Because he made a promise to God
(d) Because he knows how it feels

11. Under what circumstances does Pop tell Tex that he was conceived?
(a) It was before Pop and his mother were married
(b) Pop was in jail
(c) His mother left his father because he was seeing other women
(d) Pop left his mother

12. Who replaces Mason in the basketball game?
(a) Bob
(b) Blackie
(c) Johnny
(d) Tex

13. What revelation does Mason make about Tex?
(a) That Tex is to be expelled
(b) That Tex is going to be sent away to go to school
(c) That Pop is not his father
(d) That Mason is Tex's father

14. Who does Lem remind Tex of after he reads his letter?
(a) Tex and Jamie
(b) Pop and his young wife
(c) Mason and his girlfriend
(d) Cole and his wife

15. Where does Tex take Jamie after they leave the game?
(a) His house
(b) Home
(c) Gravel pits
(d) Football field

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jamie hurt Tex?

2. What does Lem ask Mason to tell the police?

3. What advice does the vice principal give to Tex?

4. What happened the night Tex was shot that has upset Johnny?

5. Why doesn't Tex go to the car wash to pick up another girl after he drops off Jamie?

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