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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the next thing the Schwa remembered after being abandoned by his mother?
(a) His aunt filling out paperwork at the hospital.
(b) His father filling out paperwork at the police station.
(c) Attending his father's funeral.
(d) A policeman taking him to the station.

2. Who does Old Man Crawley say is upset with Antsy in Chapter 11?
(a) The Schwa.
(b) Himself.
(c) The Schwa's father.
(d) Lexie.

3. Who ended up running away with Schwa's mother, according to the Night Butcher?
(a) A bread distributor.
(b) The store manager.
(c) The Day Butcher.
(d) One of the checkers.

4. Antsy is relieved after his father calls a family meeting, because he feared he was going to announce what in Chapter 13?
(a) A list of chores.
(b) The family was moving.
(c) His parents were getting divorced.
(d) A family vacation.

5. Antsy remembers the Schwa when what falls on the floor from his mother's recipe cards?
(a) A business card.
(b) A pencil.
(c) A paperclip.
(d) A necklace.

6. What had the Schwa's mother gone to get when she disappeared and never returned?
(a) Beef.
(b) Cigarettes.
(c) Sugar.
(d) Beer.

7. How do Antsy and the Schwa travel to an abandoned part of the city?
(a) By bus.
(b) By boat.
(c) By subway.
(d) By bicycle.

8. Whom does the Schwa say he is ending his friendship with in Chapter 14?
(a) Antsy.
(b) Emily.
(c) Frankie.
(d) Christina.

9. What does the Schwa's father show him at the end of Chapter 20?
(a) Some photographs.
(b) A home movie.
(c) A newspaper article.
(d) Letters from his mother.

10. Antsy tells his mother he would never want her to ______________.
(a) Make him go to a different school.
(b) Change her name.
(c) Disappear.
(d) Divorce his dad.

11. Who yells that an express train is coming?
(a) Ira.
(b) The Schwa.
(c) Howie.
(d) Frankie.

12. What does the Schwa show Antsy from the day his mother disappeared?
(a) A paperclip.
(b) A receipt.
(c) A note.
(d) A newspaper article.

13. How does Antsy say he will get home in Chapter 11, "The Youngest Doctor in Sheepshead Bay Gets Held Hostage When He Least Expects It"?
(a) By subway.
(b) By bike.
(c) By walking.
(d) By cab.

14. What does Antsy tell his mother while helping her cook in Chapter 15?
(a) He likes Lexie.
(b) She is cutting the carrots wrong.
(c) She is appreciated.
(d) The details of the Schwa effect.

15. What does the Night Butcher say Schwa's mother did at the meat counter on the day she disappeared?
(a) Sampled a package of shrimp.
(b) Argued about the prices.
(c) Asked what was on sale.
(d) Broke down crying.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the Schwa when his mother went missing?

2. What is outside Antsy's house when he arrives in Chapter 20?

3. What does Lexie ask for at the restaurant in Chapter 12?

4. The manager of the supermarket tells Lexie and Antsy that he remembers a child being abandoned but not ________.

5. How old was the Schwa when his mother went missing?

(see the answer keys)

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