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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Sam punches F. William Peterson at The Elms, why does Ned begin to cry?
(a) Ned knows his father will return to jail.
(b) Ned hates his father fighting.
(c) Ned likes F. William Peterson.
(d) Ned believes Jenny is dead.

2. During Father Michaels' troubled Mass, what does Ned do?
(a) Leaves church.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Laughs.
(d) Attemps to help him.

3. Why does Sam take Ned to the nursing home to visit Jenny?
(a) To make Jenny feel better.
(b) To satisfy F. William Peterson.
(c) To prove she is alive.
(d) To pay Jenny's hospital bill.

4. After Sam realizes he is not the parent young Ned needs, what does Ned want?
(a) To have his parents together again.
(b) To continue seeing his father.
(c) To move in with his father even more.
(d) To never see his father again.

5. Who once held Ned's job?
(a) Sam.
(b) Wussy.
(c) Rose.
(d) Claude.

6. In 1959, why does Ned say Jenny has stopped leaving the house?
(a) Because the town people are too mean to her.
(b) Because she cannot find a job.
(c) Because Sam never comes around anymore.
(d) Because Father Michaels walked out the back door of the church.

7. What kind gesture does Sam make immediately after Ned moves in?
(a) Sam brings him breakfast in bed.
(b) Sam buys him bedroom furniture.
(c) Sam buys him a telephone.
(d) Sam brings him a brown bag filled with clothes.

8. Why is Claude friends with Ned?
(a) Claude enjoys Ned.
(b) Claude cares for Ned when his mother is ill.
(c) Clause can beat him in competitions.
(d) Claude steals Ned's money.

9. What place does the organization "Money People" visit most often?
(a) Jenny's house.
(b) The white jewel house.
(c) Sam's house.
(d) Rose's Beauty Salon.

10. What was Ned doing when Sam kidnapped him?
(a) Catching a ball with friends.
(b) Walking from his Aunt Rose's house.
(c) Playing in the park.
(d) Eating at the ice cream parlor.

11. When Ned takes the trash down the elevator to the basement, what does Sam not tell Ned?
(a) That the basement holds water.
(b) That people live in the basement.
(c) That there is no elevator button in the basement.
(d) That he is leaving.

12. What does Drew do with his motorcycle when Sam parks in front of the garage at the Littler's house?
(a) Lifts the bike over Sam's car.
(b) Hits the bike with a baseball bat.
(c) Kicks the bike and leaves it.
(d) Rams the bike into Sam's car.

13. When Sam returned Ned after the kidnapping, how did Sam leave?
(a) Sam left with the police.
(b) With tears and pleading.
(c) With bulletholes in his car.
(d) Sam never left again.

14. When Ned comes downstairs in the morning after hearing a noise the previous night, who does he find at the kitchen table?
(a) Wussy.
(b) Sam.
(c) A police officer.
(d) Father Michaels.

15. In February at the Mohawk Grill, what does Sam try to talk Untemeyer into?
(a) Competing in a pool game.
(b) Making a bet on the weather in Phoenix.
(c) Hiding him in the basement.
(d) Keeping his paperwork safe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sam's apartment look like?

2. What kind of life does Jack Ward currently live?

3. Who lives in the white jewel house?

4. What is the setting of the novel's first chapter?

5. What are meals at the Littler household like?

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