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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Catalyst.
(b) Antagonist.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Plot structure.

2. What refers to an area to the side and slightly behind a driver's field of vision that is not reflected in the vehicle's rear view mirror?
(a) Danger quadrant.
(b) Triangle of death.
(c) Suspicion area.
(d) Blind spot.

3. What is the name of the "unbreakable" dummy Antsy's father asks him to test?
(a) Stanley Stump.
(b) Orville Ox.
(c) Diamond Dave.
(d) Manny Bullpucky.

4. When Antsy witnesses another of his parents' rows at home, he realizes that he is also like a ____________.
(a) Squirrel.
(b) Paperclip.
(c) Coffee filter.
(d) Car tire.

5. Who in the novel is mentally handicapped due to brain trauma?
(a) The Schwa's Mother.
(b) The Schwa's father.
(c) Howie.
(d) Old Man Crawley.

6. What do Antsy and his friends intend to do with the plastic dummy when they meet up in Chapter 3?
(a) Wrap it in firecrackers.
(b) Set fire to it.
(c) Try to saw it in half.
(d) Put it in a garbage disposal.

7. When Antsy and the Schwa are discovered in Old Man Crawley's home, he comes at them brandishing what weapon?
(a) A pistol.
(b) A steel poker.
(c) A brick.
(d) A stun gun.

8. In what class of Antsy's does the Schwa sit next to him?
(a) History.
(b) Algebra.
(c) English.
(d) Science.

9. Whose heritage does Old Man Crawley insult, saying his 'breeding' is bad?
(a) Howie's.
(b) Christian's.
(c) The Schwa's.
(d) Antsy's.

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

11. In Chapter 10, who comes and finds Antsy at lunch?
(a) Antsy's father.
(b) Old Man Crawley.
(c) The Schwa.
(d) Antsy's mother.

12. One of the treasured items collected by the Schwa once held together what document?
(a) The Nuclear Arms Treaty.
(b) A letter from Hitler.
(c) The Declaration of Independence.
(d) The United States Constitution.

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

14. Where is the Schwa hiding when Old Man Crawley discovers him and Antsy in his home?
(a) In the garage.
(b) Behind a curtain.
(c) In the bathroom.
(d) Under a desk.

15. How is Old Man Crawley related to Lexie in the novel?
(a) He is her father.
(b) He is her uncle.
(c) He is her brother.
(d) He is her grandfather.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Schwa dared to bring back from Old Man Crawley's home in Chapter 4?

2. Who films the throwing of the dummy off the bridge with his video camera?

3. Where did the Schwa's mother disappear from when the Schwa was young?

4. What is the Schwa's first name?

5. Whom does Old Man Crawley hire to be Lexie's companion in Chapter 7?

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