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

2. Which one of Jamie's brothers does she say has disappointed her father?
(a) Blackie
(b) Cole
(c) Bob
(d) Johnny

3. What did Tex tell Mason before he had surgery in the hospital?
(a) That he hates him
(b) To be sure he goes to college
(c) To take care of Pop
(d) That he does not hate him

4. Why doesn't Tex go to the car wash to pick up another girl after he drops off Jamie?
(a) It is too late to go get another girl
(b) Jamie made him promise not to see anyone else
(c) No other girl will go out with Tex
(d) He doesn't want anyone if he can't have her

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

6. What promise did Johnny make with God in regards to Cole and Tex?
(a) He promised to leave Cole if Tex died
(b) He promised to listen to Cole if Tex died
(c) He promised never to disobey Cole if Tex lived
(d) He promised not to upset Cole if Tex lived

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

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

9. What does Lem ask of Tex?
(a) Not to tell Mason that he wrote a letter to him
(b) Never to tell the truth
(c) Not to tell anyone where he is
(d) Not to ever try to find him

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

11. Why can't Tex shoot the people that Lem is talking to?
(a) He just wants to leave
(b) He cannot find the gun
(c) He wonders if they have mothers and sisters
(d) He is in too much pain

12. What do Tex and Mason decide to do as the book closes?
(a) Go read a book
(b) Go visit Jamie and Johnny
(c) Go fishing
(d) Go hunting

13. How does Tex answer the questions the police ask him?
(a) He made up a wild story on his own
(b) He refused to answer any of the questions
(c) Truthfully
(d) As Lem told him to

14. Which word best describes how Mason feels after Tex tells him he should definitely go to college?
(a) Happy
(b) Confused
(c) Relieved
(d) Excited

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does one of the fans of the other team do to make Tex jump him?

2. How does Jamie hurt Tex?

3. What prank are Johnny and Tex planning at the beginning of chapter nine?

4. What is the reason, as Tex thinks, for the Collins' trip to Disneyland?

5. What does Jamie tell Tex can't solve everything?

(see the answer keys)

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