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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jack do when the person he sees in the window calls to him?
(a) Begins to cry.
(b) Hides behind a cement stone.
(c) Runs away.
(d) Laughs and points.

2. What does Jack do after the ambulance takes his father?
(a) Follows the ambulance on foot.
(b) Hitches a ride to the hospital with a neighbor.
(c) Smoothes the concrete ripple caused by his father.
(d) Goes to eat lunch.

3. As Mother's illness worsens, who maintains the house?
(a) Sue and Julie.
(b) Jack and Julie.
(c) Tom and Jack.
(d) Jack and Sue.

4. The day after Mother's death, who thinks they should tell someone?
(a) Sue.
(b) Tom.
(c) Julie.
(d) Jack.

5. Who develops a special relationship with Mother as she gets sicker?
(a) Sue.
(b) Jack.
(c) Tom.
(d) Julie.

6. Which character says he/she is bullied by a kid at school?
(a) Jack.
(b) Julie.
(c) Sue.
(d) Tom.

7. Who volunteers to accompany Mother on her trips to the shops?
(a) Julie.
(b) Jack.
(c) Tom.
(d) Sue.

8. What do Julie and Jack get as Sue waits in the kitchen with a crying Tom?
(a) Rocks and sand.
(b) A new gown for Mother.
(c) Chocolate for Tom.
(d) Wheelbarrow and shovel.

9. What does Jack do with the object he finds in the garden at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) Buries it.
(b) Smashes concrete.
(c) Hides it.
(d) Reads it.

10. With whom does Jack want to avoid awkward conversations?
(a) Sue.
(b) Julie.
(c) Mother.
(d) Tom.

11. Which child leaves for school alone in Chapter 2?
(a) Sue.
(b) Derek.
(c) Jack.
(d) Tom.

12. What does Jack do after refusing to strip to be examined to play the sex game?
(a) Reads a book.
(b) Walks in the garden.
(c) Masturbates.
(d) Eats a piece of cake.

13. Who is obsessed with the garden?
(a) Julie.
(b) Father.
(c) Mother.
(d) Jack.

14. Who puts lotion on the sunbather?
(a) Jack.
(b) Tom.
(c) Julie.
(d) Sue.

15. What is the subject of the serious talk that Jack gets at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) Finances.
(b) Getting a job.
(c) Masturbation.
(d) Girls.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character is two years younger than Jack?

2. What is Julie afraid of after Mother's death?

3. Who notices increased acne but doesn't do anything about it?

4. Why is Jack told to stop his activity in the beginning of Chapter 4?

5. Why does one character think Mother is relieved when Father dies?

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