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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What advice does the vice principal give to Tex?
(a) To stop hanging around with Johnny
(b) To start thinking
(c) To stop coming to school
(d) To go home

2. What happened the night Tex was shot that has upset Johnny?
(a) Tex asked for Jamie first
(b) Lem was irresponsible
(c) Tex was left to die
(d) Cole had to call the ambulance

3. What does Tex indicate is the worst thing that could happen to the two of them?
(a) Detention
(b) Expelled
(c) Sent to the office and lectured
(d) Parents called

4. What does Mason have nightmares about?
(a) Kidnapping
(b) Tex being hurt
(c) Pop leaving again
(d) Mom dying

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

6. Where is Pop before he heads home?
(a) San Antonio
(b) Houston
(c) Dallas
(d) McAllen

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

8. Why does Tex think Mason yells at him?
(a) To make up for Pop never yelling
(b) Because Mason wants to be a father
(c) To make Tex feel bad about everything
(d) Because Mason does not like Tex

9. What does Tex wonder about love?
(a) Why it is so hard
(b) Why no one loves him
(c) Why he didn't figure it out sooner
(d) How you can love more than one person

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

11. What does Tex tell Lem when he gets out of the truck after being shot?
(a) Tex tells him to dump him like everyone else has
(b) Tex tells Lem to run away and be safe
(c) Tex tells Lem to go to get Mason
(d) Tex tells Lem to go home

12. How does Pop explain Tex's mother contracted pneumonia?
(a) He would not allow her to go to the doctor
(b) She refused to go to the doctor for any treatment
(c) She was mad at him and walked to a dance in the snow and cold
(d) He could not afford to pay for heat during the winter

13. What part of Mason is injured at the basketball game?
(a) Stomach
(b) Leg
(c) Arm
(d) Ankle

14. Who does Tex talk to when he is allowed outside at lunchtime?
(a) Mason
(b) Bob
(c) Lem
(d) Jamie

15. What does Jamie tell Tex that everyone else did in public, but she did only in private?
(a) Talk to Tex
(b) Yell at Lem
(c) Cry
(d) Talk to the police

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Tex think Mason should be relieved and happy?

2. Which word best describes how Mason feels after Tex tells him he should definitely go to college?

3. What does Johnny tell Tex about Cole when he comes to visit?

4. Who picks Tex up after he walks out of the school?

5. Why can't Tex shoot the people that Lem is talking to?

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