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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 does Howie refer to his childhood memories as?
(a) Age of innocence.
(b) Minor setbacks.
(c) Time wasting.
(d) Rule of nostalgia.

2. Howie connected learning how to tie shoes with a couplet by _____.
(a) Emerson.
(b) Pope.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Wordsworth.

3. What does Howie call his theory for shoelace wearing?
(a) Walking flexion model.
(b) Walk and wear model.
(c) Walking stress model.
(d) Flexible walking.

4. Where does Howie have a distinct memory of riding an escalator with his mom?
(a) Train station.
(b) Airport.
(c) Department store.
(d) Office building.

5. As a child, Howie loved_____.
(a) Airport luggage carriers.
(b) Trolley cars.
(c) Freight trains.
(d) Tugboats.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is inside Howie's CVS bag?

2. Howie's seventh major advance has to do with the purchase of a ________.

3. What is the first footnote in Chapter 6 about?

4. Howie describes all these "disruptions of physical routines" EXCEPT one.

5. Howie signs the _____ flower on the poster for Ray.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Howie's reaction to his shoelace breaking at work?

2. What were the "systems of local transport" that Howie liked as a child?

3. What observations does Howie make about straws while he was at Papa Gino's?

4. How does Howie celebrate what he considers to be the realization that he is an adult?

5. What is Howie's feeling about ice cube trays?

6. What does Howie consider to be his sixth major advancement in life?

7. Why has Howie mostly given up drinking milk?

8. What is Howie's focus in Chapter 3?

9. What does Howie mean by "the rule of nostalgia"?

10. What does Howie mean by "vibratiuncles of comparison"?

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