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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened when Skelly went to the Little League games?
(a) He kept trying to play, too.
(b) He started crying because he didn't understand where he was.
(c) He wandered across the field.
(d) He cheered too loudly.

2. What instrument did Jake want to learn to play?
(a) He hated music.
(b) Piano.
(c) Guitar.
(d) Drums.

3. What happened when Lucas came over?
(a) They baked a cake with Skelly.
(b) Skelly made such a scene that Lucas refused to come indoors.
(c) He noticed Skelly's clothes in the oven.
(d) He confided that his grandparent suffered from Alzheimer's, too.

4. How do the boys feel when they think the man is deaf?
(a) They feel badly about ignoring him.
(b) They don't think teasing him is funny anymore.
(c) They taunt him even more.
(d) They start to get mean.

5. Why did Lanna have to leave early?
(a) She didn't like driving at night.
(b) She had another job.
(c) She couldn't handle Skelly.
(d) She was having problems with her daughter.

6. How did Jake get to be Valentine King?
(a) He was the best looking boy in the class.
(b) He was the most popular.
(c) He was the funniest student in the class.
(d) He was the first student to turn in a math assignment with no mistakes on Valentine's Day.

7. What is Alzheimer's?
(a) A type of dance.
(b) A disease that attacks people in third world countries.
(c) A disease that destroys a person's memory.
(d) A disease that makes a person incapable of walking.

8. How did the third boy feel about his reaction to the old man.
(a) He wished he could run up to the man and embrace him, but knew the man would reject him.
(b) He felt ashamed.
(c) He was proud of his self-control.
(d) He wished he was a bit wittier.

9. What happened when Lucas slept over in fifth grade?
(a) Skelly told him to go home.
(b) Skelly told him to zipper his brisket.
(c) Skelly started swearing at Lucas.
(d) Skelly ran away.

10. How did Jake feel about taking his grandfather to the bathroom to wash his hands?
(a) It made him sad to realize his grandfather couldn't do it himself.
(b) He was happy to help the man who used to help him.
(c) He thought it was pretty funny that little Jake had to help big Skelly.
(d) He didn't want to do it.

11. What did Jake and Skelly do after dinner every night?
(a) Planned the next day.
(b) Pull-up practice.
(c) Washed dishes.
(d) Homework.

12. What did Skelly call Thorbert?
(a) A little mouse.
(b) Thor, God of Thunder.
(c) A shy little troll.
(d) A rebellious child.

13. What was the first thing Skelly did when Jake learned to walk?
(a) He called his parents to brag.
(b) He took him to the ball field.
(c) He hugged him.
(d) He gave Jake ice cream.

14. What happened when Jake was telling his Valentine's story to his mother?
(a) His grandfather kept interrupting.
(b) She laughed.
(c) The teacher called.
(d) She grounded him.

15. What is Jake's middle name?
(a) Skelly.
(b) Kelly.
(c) Sherman.
(d) He doesn't have one.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question did Jake's dad ask his mom at dinner on their one-year anniversary?

2. How many stages did Alzheimer's have according to Jake?

3. Where did Jake's mother work until he was born?

4. What job did Skelly take on when Jake was in first grade?

5. How did Jake know his grandfather was getting worse?

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