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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 does Goolrick get home that day?
(a) He calls his mother.
(b) He walks.
(c) He takes the bus.
(d) He rides his bike.

2. What did Goolrick's father do in one of the pageants?
(a) He was Martha Washington.
(b) He was a president.
(c) He was the flag.
(d) He was a soldier.

3. What was Goolrick the first May Day play?
(a) A hawk.
(b) A robin.
(c) An oriole.
(d) A bluebird.

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

5. What happened to the cream?
(a) It would separate.
(b) It would spoil.
(c) It would coagulate.
(d) It would melt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Goolrick tell the following morning?

2. What did the young man eventually become in life?

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

4. What did Lackman bake for Butter Day?

5. What does Goolrick note about celebrities?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Goolrick's reply to George's threat.

3. Explain what happens when Goolrick runs into the boys from school.

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

5. 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?

6. Explain Goolrick's story of his "real" parents.

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

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

9. Describe why Goolrick was compelled to masturbate, in terms of how it made him feel and how it allowed him to escape.

10. Explain what happens when Goolrick tells his mother about the blood when he goes to the bathroom.

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