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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the reader learn that Darren’s directional instincts were wrong?
(a) The narrator tells us.
(b) Darren discovers it.
(c) Darren tells the reader directly.
(d) Passing hunters tell him.

2. What was Jonathan’s reaction to paying for a sex act at the bath house?
(a) It filled him with guilt.
(b) It made him proud.
(c) It made him miserable.
(d) It made him mean.

3. 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.

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

5. What advice that Evanson gave to Adam had Jane received from her supervisor?
(a) Use obscure references for credibility.
(b) Make eye contact with people.
(c) Stop nodding in time with speech.
(d) Stop twirling your hair.

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

7. When Adam understood the language of products, what did he understand them to be saying?
(a) That they did not recognize him.
(b) That they admired him.
(c) That they desired him.
(d) That they loathed him.

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

9. What does Adam say it means to be a subject in a supermarket?
(a) To be seduced by sounds and scents.
(b) To be spread by objects.
(c) To be besieged by colors and manipulative designs.
(d) To be immune to language.

10. How long does the narrator tell the reader it will take Darren to make the walk he thinks will be two hours?
(a) 6 hours.
(b) 2 days.
(c) 2 hours.
(d) 12 hours.

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

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

13. What did Jonathan specialize in at the Topeka Foundation?
(a) Lost boys.
(b) Language problems.
(c) Art therapy.
(d) Marital problems.

14. How does the narrator characterize Darren?
(a) An animal.
(b) A pet.
(c) A man-child.
(d) A baby.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Jane told made her Christmas gift special?

3. What made Jane see that her Christmas gift was not, in fact, special?

4. Who invited Darren to stay and have a beer at Ron Williams’ place?

5. What was Darren’s mother afraid any confrontation with Darren might lead to?

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