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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What prank are Johnny and Tex planning at the beginning of chapter nine?
(a) Motor bike stunt jumping over the basketball hoops
(b) Exploding caps on typewriter keys
(c) Horse manure in a lunch bag
(d) Food fight in the cafeteria

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

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

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

5. What is the only thing that keeps Tex's mind off of his horse?
(a) Having Pop back in his life
(b) Fighting with Mason
(c) School work
(d) His relationship with Jamie

6. What does Tex tell Mason to hurt his feelings?
(a) That he doesn't want him to be his brother anymore
(b) That he does not respect him
(c) That he will hate him the rest of his life
(d) That he wants to go with Pop if he leaves

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

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

9. What happens to Mason at the basketball game?
(a) Tex and he have a fight
(b) Pop comes to the game drunk
(c) The opposing team attempts to hurt him
(d) Mason breaks his ankle

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

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

12. 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 promised Miss Johnson
(c) Because he saw him at the fair working with horses
(d) Because he owed the police a favor

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

14. What revelation does Lem make about Mason?
(a) That he wants respect not money
(b) That he does not like Tex
(c) That he wants money not respect
(d) That he does not like Lem

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jamie hurt Tex?

2. From whom does Tex receive a letter?

3. What does Jamie tell Tex that everyone else did in public, but she did only in private?

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

5. Why has Pop decided to come home?

(see the answer keys)

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