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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Ned and Sam's routine, when does Sam return from work?
(a) Sam does not work.
(b) Early in the morning.
(c) Around seven in the evening.
(d) Before Ned gets home from school.

2. After his conversation with Wussy, what does Ned do in the park?
(a) Skateboards.
(b) Throws rocks at a shed.
(c) Journals.
(d) Sleeps.

3. After finding someone at his kitchen table, where does Ned go with Jenny?
(a) The park.
(b) School.
(c) Church.
(d) The police station.

4. When Ned is twelve years old, what does he enjoy doing in Myrtle Park?
(a) Talking to girls.
(b) Riding his bike.
(c) Stealing lunches.
(d) Playing chess.

5. What does Sam teach Ned at the Mohawk Grill?
(a) How to play Liars with two dollar bills.
(b) How to evaluate the bartenders.
(c) How to discount food.
(d) How to rig the jukebox.

6. How does Sam delay the divorce?
(a) Sam goes to jail.
(b) Sam beats up her lawyer.
(c) Sam manipulates the court sytem.
(d) Sam leaves town.

7. What is the setting of the novel's first chapter?
(a) The end of the Vietnam War.
(b) The end of World War II.
(c) The start of World War II.
(d) Present day America.

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

9. What does Sam's apartment look like?
(a) Dirty and old.
(b) Large, but cluttered.
(c) Huge with little furniture.
(d) Small and cramped.

10. When do Jenny and Sam separate?
(a) The day Ned is born.
(b) Shortly before Ned is born.
(c) Ned's first birthday.
(d) When Ned is in first grade.

11. After his conversation with Wussy, whom does Ned see?
(a) Father Michaels.
(b) Sam.
(c) Jenny.
(d) Claude.

12. 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 there is no elevator button in the basement.
(c) That people live in the basement.
(d) That he is leaving.

13. What lie does Ned tell his peers at school concerning his father?
(a) That his father travels the country.
(b) That his father is wealthy.
(c) That is father is remarried and living in California.
(d) That his father is dead.

14. Who talks Drew away from his motorcycle after his wreck?
(a) Sam.
(b) Jack.
(c) Ned.
(d) Jenny.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who lives in the white jewel house?

2. On one of Ned and Drew's motorcycle rides, what sign does Ned see in front of his mother's house?

3. Why does Sam take Ned to the nursing home to visit Jenny?

4. After Sam realizes he is not the parent young Ned needs, how are Jenny and Ned?

5. How does Ned feel after visiting Jenny in the nursing home?

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