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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Old Man Crawley tells Antsy and the Schwa that they will have to work off their debt for breaking into his house by doing what chore?
(a) Walking his dogs.
(b) Washing his car.
(c) Cleaning the house.
(d) Pulling weeds out of the garden.

2. Who is very unfriendly to the Schwa in his first appearance and tells his friends that the Schwa is almost invisible and that people forget about him?
(a) Howie.
(b) Ira.
(c) Antsy.
(d) Lexie.

3. Antsy and his friends determine that how many students notice the Schwa in a classroom?
(a) 1 in 5.
(b) 3 in 5.
(c) 4 in 5.
(d) 9 in 10.

4. What is Antsy's real name in the novel?
(a) Thomas Anthony Malnati.
(b) Robert Anthony Talladino.
(c) Anthony Bonano.
(d) John Michael Anthony.

5. What makes the Schwa's and Antsy's job for Old Man Crawley particularly time-consuming in Chapter 6?
(a) They can only walk one dog at a time.
(b) The dogs need to be walked ten miles.
(c) The ground is covered with snow.
(d) The dogs get tangled up with each other.

6. Which of the seven deadly sins refers to an inflated sense of one's personal status or accomplishments?
(a) Sloth.
(b) Greed.
(c) Lust.
(d) Pride.

7. What refers to the medical use of ionizing radiation, generally used as part of cancer treatment to control malignant cells?
(a) Trauma therapy.
(b) Radiation therapy.
(c) Compassion therapy.
(d) Nature therapy.

8. Who suggests experimenting with the Schwa in order to quantify the Schwa effect in Chapter 3?
(a) The Schwa.
(b) Ira.
(c) Howie.
(d) Antsy.

9. What kind of dogs does Old Man Crawley have?
(a) German Shepherds.
(b) Afghan Hounds.
(c) Poodles.
(d) Doberman Pinschers.

10. Who is the narrator in The Schwa Was Here?
(a) Lexie.
(b) The Schwa's father.
(c) Old Man Crawley.
(d) Antsy.

11. Which of the seven deadly sins is defined as an excessive desire to possess wealth, goods, or abstract things of value with the intention to keep it for one's self?
(a) Sloth.
(b) Lust.
(c) Greed.
(d) Pride.

12. According to Lexie in Chapter 9, who should start being her escort?
(a) Howie.
(b) The Schwa.
(c) Old Man Crawley.
(d) Wendell Tiggor.

13. The Schwa is referred to as being __________.
(a) Effectively invisible.
(b) Virtually invisible.
(c) Functionally invisible.
(d) Ironically invisible.

14. Antsy ensures that the Schwa cannot join him and Lexie on their outing by bringing down _________.
(a) A shopping list.
(b) Some homework.
(c) Some dirty laundry.
(d) Two dogs to walk.

15. Ira has ambitions to become a _________ when he grows up.
(a) Senator.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Director.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 10, who comes and finds Antsy at lunch?

2. What breaks off the dummy when Antsy and his friends throw it off a bridge in their first experiment?

3. When Antsy witnesses another of his parents' rows at home, he realizes that he is also like a ____________.

4. On what day of the week do a bunch of kids gather outside Crawley's apartment to watch the Schwa's dare in Chapter 5?

5. What is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story, or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or an intangible quality or idea?

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