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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. What did brother want mother to say before he ate his dinner?
(a) "Eat your lunch cowboy."
(b) "Chief say eat."
(c) "God commands you to eat."
(d) "Howdy stranger."

2. What word do the Goolrick's use instead of fabrics?
(a) Materials.
(b) Patterns.
(c) Cloths.
(d) Mediums.

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

4. When Goolrick was hospitalized, what did his aunt think caused his breakdown?
(a) His car accident.
(b) His addiction.
(c) His mother's breast cancer.
(d) His breakup with his lover.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does mother threaten to do?

2. What excuse did the Goolrick children use to convince their parents to buy them things?

3. What did Goolrick's parents never buy for him?

4. What did the children do with the jars of cream?

5. What happened to Grandmother's Canton plates?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe what happened when Goolrick's brother refused to eat when they were children.

3. What does Goolrick mean when he says he has spent his life looking for the thing that will make him into whom he wants to be?

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

5. Explain what Goolrick means by calling his brother "a sly one" (pg. 124).

6. What does Goolrick make clear in this chapter about his grandmother?

7. Explain Goolrick's graduation speech.

8. Explain what happened to Goolrick when he was four years old.

9. Explain the title of this chapter, "Such Charming Hands."

10. Explain what happened when Goolrick was a boy, when he was invited to a sleep over at the McClouds.

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