View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does the narrator say the term overkill was coined?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1968.

2. What kind of signs does Adam say his classmates exchanged?
(a) Gang signs.
(b) Signs of their own creation.
(c) Military signs.
(d) Fraternity signs.

3. Why had Jonathan’s family been abroad?
(a) His father had taken them for a travel year.
(b) His father wanted to visit his origins.
(c) His father was in the military.
(d) His father was a diplomat.

4. What environment does the narrator say Darren’s camouflage pants helped him disappear into?
(a) Kansas plains.
(b) Kansas society.
(c) Topeka suburbs.
(d) American empire.

5. Who did Amber thank for dinner before Jane’s event?
(a) Adam.
(b) Jane.
(c) Sima.
(d) Jonathan.

6. What advice did Evanson give Adam in Minneapolis?
(a) Compliment the judges.
(b) Use regional speech.
(c) Use icily cold logic.
(d) Get personal with his opponents.

7. How does the narrator say people like Darren learn to differentiate themselves in this country?
(a) Through violence.
(b) Through crime.
(c) Through business.
(d) Through creativity.

8. What was the purple cow lyric used for?
(a) Teaching Adam to read.
(b) Making Adam and his mother laugh together.
(c) Teaching Adam about colors.
(d) Getting Adam to bed.

9. How does Jonathan say Sima made people feel?
(a) Trusted.
(b) Meaningful.
(c) Heard.
(d) Elegant.

10. Who else does Jonathan say was committing a sexual sin at the time when he paid for a sex act at the bath house?
(a) His father’s boss.
(b) Donna Selkie.
(c) His mother.
(d) His father.

11. Why did Adam prefer poetry to debate?
(a) Poets got more female attention.
(b) Debate made you nerdy.
(c) Debate was harder.
(d) Poetry led to better colleges.

12. How many years after the Snowball did Darren’s classmates push a girl toward him and tell him to kiss her?
(a) 9.
(b) 5.
(c) 7..
(d) 2.

13. Why does Adam say he and his friends included Darren?
(a) Because they felt bad for him.
(b) Because they liked him.
(c) Because they were told to.
(d) Because they could see that it helped him.

14. What was Adam advocating in the semi-final debate?
(a) Universal basic income.
(b) Increasing the age for selling tobacco.
(c) Raising the minimum wage.
(d) Decreasing the voting age.

15. What did Fred Phelps’ family call Jane Gordon?
(a) The seductress.
(b) Medusa.
(c) The brain.
(d) The misanthrope.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Adam’s friends exercise their aggression through language?

2. What did Jonathan specialize in at the Topeka Foundation?

3. How does Jane characterize Adam’s behavior over dinner with her and Jonathan and Amber?

4. How long does the narrator tell the reader it will take Darren to make the walk he thinks will be two hours?

5. How did Sima’s relationship with Eric begin?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 463 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample