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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Darren’s mother afraid any confrontation with Darren might lead to?
(a) Darren’s suicide.
(b) Darren beating her up.
(c) Jail and death for Darren.
(d) Darren’s departure.

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

3. What does Jonathan say his parents drank to ignore?
(a) Hiroshima.
(b) His own poor health.
(c) His father’s affairs.
(d) His father’s parents’ divorce.

4. What was special about the Snowball skate?
(a) A girl asked Darren to skate.
(b) Darren got in a fight with his classmates.
(c) Darren fell and broke his cheekbone.
(d) Darren skated with a girl who held his hand.

5. What does Jane make herself think about Adam, instead of admitting his behavior?
(a) She thinks of him as extremely knowledgeable.
(b) She thinks of him as trustworthy.
(c) She thinks of him as handsome and strong.
(d) She thinks of him as vulnerable.

6. Jonathan compares his classmate Russell to a character in what book?
(a) The Sound and the Fury.
(b) Of Mice and Men.
(c) The Grapes of Wrath.
(d) Cannery Row.

7. Where did Darren get a drink on his walk home?
(a) A convenience store.
(b) A hose outside a house.
(c) A glass inside someone’s house.
(d) A McDonalds.

8. When was Adam in New York having a breakdown about his girlfriend in Spain?
(a) 1991.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1997.
(d) 1999.

9. What was Darren’s relationship with Ron Williams?
(a) Ron was his mother’s friend.
(b) Ron was his neighbor.
(c) Ron was his boss.
(d) Ron was his friend’s father.

10. What made Fred Phelps famous for protesting anyone who he thinks supports homosexuality?
(a) His arrest for stalking.
(b) His picketing at soldiers’ funerals.
(c) His op-eds to the New York Times.
(d) A 20/20 episode.

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

12. How often would Adam work with Evanson?
(a) Twice a week.
(b) Three times a week.
(c) Once a week.
(d) Every day after school.

13. Where is Jonathan when the New York School chapter begins?
(a) In an airplane circling Topeka.
(b) Taiwan.
(c) New York.
(d) In an airplane circling JFK.

14. How did this story about the special gift make Adam feel about Jane’s family?
(a) It made him angry at Jane’s mother.
(b) It made him love Jane’s sister.
(c) It made him sympathetic toward his grandfather.
(d) It made him impatient with Jane’s gullibility.

15. How does Jonathan describe the encounter he had with a girl at a bath house?
(a) In the third person.
(b) In the second person.
(c) In the first person.
(d) In indirect discourse.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the narrator say the term overkill was coined?

2. What did Adam do after dinner that delighted the Phelpses?

3. What advice did Evanson give Adam in Minneapolis?

4. Whose friends did Adam’s friend protect Darren from?

5. Why was a particular person central to including Darren?

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