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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. What is a literary device in which an author indistinctly suggests certain plot developments that might come later in the story?
(a) Protagonist.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Foreshadowing.
(d) Simile.

2. Where was the Schwa left when his mother disappeared?
(a) The cart checkout.
(b) The fast food aisle.
(c) The frozen food aisle.
(d) The parking lot.

3. What does Old Man Crawley offer to Antsy in order for him to stay at the hospital?
(a) A gold watch.
(b) A silver coin.
(c) Time and a half.
(d) Double time.

4. Whom does Antsy tell off in Chapter 14?
(a) His mother.
(b) The Schwa's mother.
(c) Schwa's father.
(d) His father.

5. What has Frankie gotten in trouble for in Chapter 20?
(a) Robbing a bank.
(b) Transporting drugs.
(c) Driving while drunk.
(d) Hitting a police officer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who yells that an express train is coming?

2. Where does Antsy take the spiritual man he asks for help from in Chapter 15?

3. When the Schwa hears the Night Butcher's story in Chapter 19, he is first shocked and then __________.

4. Antsy realizes that his mother's _____________ are a way for her to feel like she has something for herself.

5. Antsy tries to persuade the Schwa that he will not ___________ someday, but the Schwa does not believe him.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Antsy discover upon returning home in Chapter 20?

2. How does the Schwa describe his mother's disappearance in Chapter 14?

3. What conversation takes place between Antsy and Lexie when he walks her home in Chapter 13?

4. How are Crawley's fears relative to the Schwa?

5. What do Lexie and Antsy do in their second attempt to obtain information at the supermarket in Chapter 15?

6. What advice does Old Man Crawley give for the Schwa?

7. What does Antsy realize about his mother in Chapter 15?

8. How does the Schwa react to the Night Butcher's story in Chapter 19?

9. What does Lexie demand at the restaurant in Chapter 12? What organization does she tell Antsy about?

10. Why does Antsy realize there is no traffic on the expressway? What does this mean about the billboard?

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