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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. How long has Goolrick lived alone?
(a) Five years.
(b) Twenty five years.
(c) Never.
(d) Sixty years.

2. What does Goolrick admit about his childhood?
(a) He despised it.
(b) He loved it.
(c) He remembers little of it.
(d) He remembers all of it.

3. What does mother threaten to do?
(a) Tell his father.
(b) Throw him out.
(c) Call the police and institutionalize Goolrick.
(d) Kill his lover.

4. What did Goolrick do in both his grandmother's houses?
(a) Killed the cat.
(b) Stole money from drawers.
(c) Peed on the carpet.
(d) Set the curtains on fire.

5. What are the Goolrick children not allowed to say, much less eat?
(a) Coconut.
(b) Dip.
(c) Roast.
(d) Pie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did George accuse Goolrick of saying?

2. Why was town an exciting place?

3. What does Mrs. Lackman do to the young man who accidentally wets himself?

4. What happened to the cream?

5. What did Elizabeth Taylor say about her eyes?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize Goolrick's experiences during kindergarten and first grade.

2. Explain what happened the morning after Goolrick was molested.

3. What does Goolrick mean when he points out that they boys thought he was one of them?

4. What does Goolrick mean by "how did they thrive so long, and then fail" at the end of this chapter?

5. What seems to be Goolrick's primary premise in "How I Went On"?

6. Explain that pageants of Mrs. Lackman's classes.

7. Explain how cream was used to make butter in the classroom.

8. Explain how Goolrick and his siblings coerce their mother into buying things, and how they pay for it.

9. Explain the confrontation between Goolrick and his mother in the first grade.

10. Describe the events that took place with Roy and Goolrick's brother in the field.

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