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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. In the non-italicized section of Chapter 2, who does Bobby think hid the rubber raft under the tree?
(a) Campbell, Bobby's dive tender.
(b) The missing passenger.
(c) Red.
(d) Oiler.

2. In the italicized section of Chapter 4, who does the carpentry to fix up the girl's room?
(a) Her uncle.
(b) Bobby.
(c) Her aunt.
(d) Her grandmother.

3. In the non-italicized section of Chapter 4, where does Bobby go after eating at the bar?
(a) To a cathedral.
(b) To Taylor's operations office.
(c) Back to his old apartment.
(d) To meet Long John.

4. In the non-italicized section of Chapter 1, what bar does Bobby go to on Philip St.?
(a) Cat's Paw.
(b) Left of Center.
(c) Seven Seas.
(d) The Gulf.

5. In the non-italicized section of Chapter 1, what is Bobby's job?
(a) Office manager.
(b) Marine biologist.
(c) Professor.
(d) Salvage diver.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the italicized section of Chapter 4, what does the girl write in her diary about the purpose of families?

2. In the italicized section of Chapter 4, what does the kid say that nobody wants to talk about the speed of?

3. In the non-italicized section of Chapter 3, the person Bobby calls back has a dream about Bobby. What is the dream?

4. In the Italicized section of the Chapter 1, in what city does the Kid find the girl?

5. In the non-italicized section of Chapter 2, what part of AA does Bobby's lunch date have trouble with?

Short Essay Questions

1. Does Bobby find anything on his search of the cluster of islands?

2. Before the girl ends her life in the Wisconsin woods, who comes to see her a final time in her room in Chicago?

3. What is Oiler's attitude about his time in Vietnam?

4. What does Debussy go home to tell her mother about?

5. How does the fire start in Bianca's apartment?

6. Where does Bobby move in after taking all his belongings out of his apartment?

7. In Chapter 2, What does the Kid present to the girl?

8. What happens to Bobby that ends his time racing cars?

9. What part does Bobby's father play in World War II?

10. How does the Kid talk? What is the reader's impression of the Kid from the ways he talks and the language that he uses.

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