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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 109 | Chapter 113.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Father make the narrator promise to give up at the end of Chapter 79?
(a) Not talking about Mr. Shears.
(b) Talking to Mrs. Shears.
(c) Not talking about his mother.
(d) His silly detective game.

2. Who tells the narrator that his mother has gone to heaven?
(a) Mrs. Shears.
(b) No one.
(c) Mrs. Forbes.
(d) Father.

3. What type of listing does the narrator include in Chapter 73?
(a) A listing of his parents' arguments.
(b) A listing of his father's infidelities.
(c) A listing of his mother's mood swings.
(d) A listing of his behavioral problems.

4. What did Father take to the hospital when he went to visit Mother?
(a) Shoes from Han Coles.
(b) Food from Marks and Spencer's.
(c) Flowers from Spencer's.
(d) Books from Barnes and Noble.

5. In Chapter 109, what does the narrator spend the afternoon doing?
(a) Reading his favorite book.
(b) Painting pictures of aliens.
(c) Detective work.
(d) Math.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 97, where does the narrator go after he arrives home from school?

2. Which of the following is not one of the three reasons the narrator deduces for killing a dog?

3. How does the narrator's father describe Mr. Shears?

4. Why is the narrator's father frustrated by the time they reach home from the police headquarters?

5. Why doesn't the narrator think he could make his story into a short novel?

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