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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which word best describes what Cole hopes to do to Mason and Tex?
(a) Help
(b) Excite
(c) Intimidate
(d) Repulse

2. Which character agrees with Jamie about the new baby?
(a) Johnny
(b) Cole
(c) Tex
(d) Mason

3. What does Cole demand to Mason?
(a) Mason to send a message to his father for Cole
(b) Tex to stop talking to Jamie
(c) Provide their share of the money to pay for the gas to the fair
(d) Mason and Tex stay away from his family

4. Where is Mason and Tex's father?
(a) On the rodeo circuit
(b) At his work
(c) The author does not tell the reader about their father
(d) Fixing the furnace

5. Why do Tex, Mason and Lem go to the Collins' home?
(a) To share the news
(b) To see Jamie
(c) To visit with Charlie
(d) To spite Cole

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tex say has happened?

2. When does Mason think their father will return?

3. What happens on the drive back home from the city?

4. What forces Johnny and Tex to finally start speaking to each other again?

5. Why is Tex sad when they leave Tex's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What epiphany does Tex come to after the incident at the outdoor store?

2. What does the fortune teller advise Tex?

3. In what way is Mason impressive in this chapter?

4. How does Lem come to the revelation that Mason wants respect more than money?

5. Which character seems to have stayed the same throughout the novel?

6. Why does Tex believe he will never see Lem again?

7. What does Tex remind Jamie about relationships?

8. How does Tex handle the revelation that Pop is not his father?

9. Why do you think Tex gets in trouble in school quite often?

10. How does Mason react to Lem's decision for work?

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