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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) No other girl will go out with Tex
(c) Jamie made him promise not to see anyone else
(d) He doesn't want anyone if he can't have her

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

3. Who attends the funeral of the hitchhiker?
(a) Mason
(b) Tex
(c) Tex's Vice principal
(d) Tex's English teacher

4. Why did Cole make Tex hang up the phone?
(a) So he could call Mason
(b) So he could call an ambulance
(c) So he could call the police
(d) So the ambulance could find Tex

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

6. What is the reason, as Tex thinks, for the Collins' trip to Disneyland?
(a) To separate Jamie and Tex
(b) Just a normal family vacation
(c) To bury the hatchet with Blackie
(d) To give everyone a fresh start

7. What does Lem ask Mason to tell the police?
(a) That Tex was the cause of the argument
(b) Nothing, he doesn't want Tex to talk to the police
(c) That it was an argument over money
(d) That it was an argument over drugs

8. Who picks Tex up after he walks out of the school?
(a) Jamie
(b) Cole
(c) Lem
(d) Mason

9. Who does Tex call from the phone booth when he is bleeding?
(a) Mason
(b) The hospital
(c) Johnny
(d) Pop

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

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

12. What is Pop doing instead of taking Tex to buy back his horse?
(a) Getting drunk at the bar
(b) Shooting tournament
(c) Working
(d) Pool tournament

13. Who calls at two o'clock in the morning?
(a) Bob
(b) Cole
(c) Lem
(d) Pop

14. 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

15. What did Tex tell Jamie that he forgot about her?
(a) She was one of those that was leaving
(b) She always liked Mason better than him
(c) She always thought she was better than him
(d) She didn't care about him

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what circumstances does Pop tell Tex that he was conceived?

2. How does Tex answer the questions the police ask him?

3. What revelation does Lem make about Mason?

4. Who is Johnny most worried about finding out about the prank?

5. What surprise does the vice principal tell Tex?

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