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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 adult thinking life as?
(a) Age of wisdom.
(b) Major improvment.
(c) Time stopper.
(d) True Majority.

2. Howie compares sneaker shoelaces to _________ at the end of Chapter 1.
(a) Vinyl shoelaces.
(b) Dress shoelaces.
(c) Velcro.
(d) Spaghetti.

3. What is inside Howie's CVS bag?
(a) Earplugs.
(b) A cookie.
(c) Shoelaces.
(d) Nude magazine.

4. What has broken at the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) Stapler.
(b) Right shoelace.
(c) Escalator.
(d) Left shoelace.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Howie consider to be a "nice laboratorial word"?

2. What was Howie's first glimpse into the social contract as a child?

3. What did Howie see for the first time as a child in his best friend's refrigerator?

4. Howie's first reason that it is okay for brain cells to die is that it's part of a necessary ______.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does breaking his shoelace remind Howie of?

2. Why does Howie purchase a milk carton at Papa Gino's?

3. What compelling realization does Howie remember when driving behind a garbage truck when he is thirty?

4. How does Howie describe the experience of opening a package of shirts from the dry cleaners?

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

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

7. What does Howie notice about his shoes as he reties them in Chapter 4?

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

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

10. What thoughts about bread does Howie have while riding the subway?

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