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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 happens after David completes his Johnny Jones task?
(a) He fights Johnny.
(b) Nothing.
(c) He gets caught by Johnny's father.
(d) Johnny pays him for his task.

2. When David is 15, he feels that the countdown to his 18th birthday has begun. He knows when he is 18 he will have to leave the foster care system. What step does David take to prepare for this event?
(a) David begins stealing.
(b) David begins begging for an allowance.
(c) David does nothing to prepare for this event.
(d) David begins working.

3. After the Johnny Jones task, David meets with Ms. Gold. What does he tell her?
(a) He tells her he is constantly afraid.
(b) He tells her he dislikes Lilian.
(c) He tells her he hates her.
(d) He tells her to take him back to his mother.

4. David is sent to live with Harold and Alice Turnbough. What aren't The Turnboughs licensed for?
(a) They are not licensed to take girls.
(b) They are not licensed to have foster children,
(c) They are not licensed to take boys.
(d) They are not licensed to drive.

5. After trying to meet with his brother the second day, David and Carlos run. What did David fear was going to happen?
(a) He feared his mother would run him over with her car.
(b) He feared his father would kidnap him.
(c) He feared his mother was going to stab him.
(d) He feared his father was going to stab him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was David's father afraid would happen if his co-workers found out his son started a fire?

2. What do David and his brother agree to do the following day?

3. Who did David think of when he was aboard a 747 heading for his new life?

4. Who did David say were his true mother and father?

5. After David leaves the Jones' foster home, which foster home did he revisit?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did David feel responsible for the Nulls' divorce?

2. When David is living with the Nulls, what does he do for Joanne when she is upset?

3. In the chapter entitled The Defiant One, David is on a quest for friendships. Where does this quest lead him?

4. Why did David join the Air Force?

5. Why didn't anyone believe David when he said he didn't start the fire?

6. What information did Uncle Lee give to David about Stephen, his father?

7. While at the Hill, what did the mental health person want David to do?

8. In the Break Away chapter, David was living with the Turnboughs again. Did David ever go back and visit his friends on Duinsmoore Drive?

9. In the Estranged chapter, when David sees Russell, his brother, why doesn't David tell that he thinks Russell is now being abused?

10. Late in the chapter entitled The Defiant One, after David returns to the Catanze's for the second time, what one fact does David cling to when Rudy is yelling at him?

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