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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. How do Rose's clients enter her salon?
(a) The stairs.
(b) The elevator.
(c) The back door.
(d) The front door.

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

3. Where does Jack Ward live?
(a) With Sam.
(b) Klein's department store.
(c) In the house next to Jenny.
(d) The white jewel house.

4. When Ned shows his new bike to Wussy, what does Wussy tell him?
(a) Sam is in Alaska.
(b) Jenny needs help.
(c) Ned should leave school.
(d) Sam is in town.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sam delay the divorce?

2. How much money does Ned make at his first job?

3. What story concerning Tree does Ned recollect as he wanders the dark basement?

4. During Father Michaels' troubled Mass, what does he eventually do?

5. What are meals at the Littler household like?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jack Ward claim that he now has so much money that he does not know how to spend it?

2. Why would Sam leave Ned in the basement?

3. What happens with Father Michaels and Jenny?

4. Why does Ned decide not to believe anyone who says his father has left town?

5. How is it symbolic that Ned gets an education at the Mohawk Grill?

6. How is attending church like drinking for Jenny?

7. How does Ned react when Sam enters his life at age six?

8. Why is Claude Schwartz, Jr. friends with Ned?

9. What kind of gesture is Sam making by leaving Ned a bag of clothes?

10. At the beginning of his stay with Sam, why is Ned uncomfortable?

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