3. What does Mother do after Goolrick goes to college?
(a) Betrays his lover.
(b) Kills his lover.
(c) Tells his father he is gay.
(d) Befriends his lover.

4. What did Goolrick's brother claim to do in one day?
(a) Learn to read.
(b) Learn to subtract.
(c) Learn to add.
(d) Learn all the state capitals.

5. What does Goolrick grow to despise?
(a) The smell of burning hair.
(b) The taste of bourbon.
(c) The touch of loved ones.
(d) The casual touch of strangers.

6. Why goes Goolrick call walking by the river "violently sexy" (pg. 135)?
(a) The river was wavy.
(b) The river was a flood zone.
(c) The river was dirty.
(d) Everything by the river was erotic.

7. What does Goolrick suddenly hear as George is threatening him?
(a) His brother.
(b) Girl scouts.
(c) His mother.
(d) The church bells.

8. What does Mrs. Lackman do to the young man who accidentally wets himself?
(a) Allows him to go home.
(b) Changes him.
(c) Ridicules him.
(d) Forces him to strip in front of other children.

9. What does Goolrick watch by the river that excites him?
(a) A young man masturbating.
(b) A woman being raped.
(c) Several people having sex with one another.
(d) A couple having sex.

10. What allowed the family to begin going to the beach for three weeks a year?
(a) Father's new job.
(b) Mother's new job.
(c) Father's retirement.
(d) A family inheritance.

11. How did Goolrick's mother use to pay for movies?
(a) She would charge it.
(b) She would sell drugs.
(c) She would ask her husband for money.
(d) She would sell poems.

12. What does Mother say is wrong with Goolrick when he complains of blood in his stools?
(a) It was his fault for letting father molest him.
(b) It was something he drank.
(c) It was something he ate.
(d) It is the flu.

13. What did Goolrick give a speech about at graduation?
(a) University life in the seventies.
(b) University life in the eighties.
(c) University life in the sixties.
(d) University life in the nineties.

14. Who woke to see the molestation?
(a) Goolrick's grandmother.
(b) Goolrick's mother.
(c) Goolrick's father.
(d) Goolrick's brother.

15. Why did the McClouds throw Goolrick out?
(a) He was drunk.
(b) He did drugs.
(c) His family thought they were better than everyone.
(d) He was gay.