View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where was Darren when he finally called his mother collect, to come get him?
(a) Stull.
(b) Clinton Lake.
(c) Lawrence.
(d) Topeka.

3. What was Darren’s inclusion a joke on, according to Adam?
(a) The school’s mainstreaming process.
(b) American adolescence.
(c) Parental authority.
(d) The Foundation’s milieu therapy.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jonathan describe the encounter he had with a girl at a bath house?

2. What does the narrator say the music and the skating suggested to Darren and his friends?

3. Why does Adam say he and his friends included Darren?

4. What was special about the Snowball skate?

5. Who did Amber thank for dinner before Jane’s event?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jonathan describe the conditions where he grew up in Taiwan?

2. How does the narrator characterize the interaction between Adam and Jane and the Phelpses on the way to Jane’s keynote address?

3. What is the social scene Darren hung out in?

4. What observations does Adam make about American culture when he is in the supermarket with his mother and grandmother?

5. What motivated Darren to throw the cue ball at the girl?

6. Who are the Phelpses and what was their relation to Jane Gordon?

7. How did Jonathan’s relationship with Sima begin?

8. What cause Jane to consciously redirect her thoughts about Adam’s behavior, and how did she do so?

9. What was Jonathan’s relationship with Donna Selkie like, and what made is awkward?

10. What advice did Evanson give Adam at the debate tournament in Minneapolis?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,071 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample