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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. Where do Antsy and Lexie go on their first date in the novel?
(a) A baseball game.
(b) Ice skating.
(c) A hockey game.
(d) The movies.

2. Antsy tries to persuade the Schwa that he will not ___________ someday, but the Schwa does not believe him.
(a) Kill his father.
(b) Kill himself.
(c) Disappear.
(d) Kill his mother.

3. Whom does Old Man Crawley insist ride with him in the ambulance?
(a) Antsy.
(b) The Schwa.
(c) The Schwa's father.
(d) Lexie.

4. What name is given to a spiritual man who uses metal rods to find the presence of water and spirits?
(a) A jingler.
(b) A razzer.
(c) A roubus.
(d) A dowser.

5. When Antsy finds Crawley in Chapter 11, Antsy gives the old man some of the painkillers and anti-inflammatory pills that were prescribed the last time he did what?
(a) Broke his nose.
(b) Broke his hip.
(c) Cut his leg.
(d) Spained his ankle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lexie demand the manager of the restaurant do?

2. In what section of a work of literature is basic internal conflict complicated by the introduction of related secondary conflicts and obstacles that frustrate the protagonist's attempt to reach his goal?

3. How has Old Man Crawley injured himself in Chapter 11?

4. What do Lexie and Antsy tell the manager of the supermarket they are doing a report on in Chapter 15?

5. When the Schwa returns home, whom does he ask about?

Short Essay Questions

1. What excitement does Antsy face when he goes to Crawley's in Chapter 11?

2. How is Manny Bullpucky a metaphorical representation of the Schwa?

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

4. Why does Antsy believe Crawley wants him to stay with him?

5. Whom does Antsy go to talk to at the supermarket in Chapter 16?

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

7. How does the Schwa discover Lexie and Antsy's relationship in Chapter 13?

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

9. In what ways does the Schwa appear to fade from Antsy's life in Chapter 15?

10. What is the significance of "Radiation Therapy" in the title of Chapter 19?

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