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. Who was Adam shopping with when he ran into one of Reynolds’ friends?
(a) Jonathan.
(b) His mother and grandmother.
(c) Sima.
(d) Amber.

2. How did Sima’s relationship with Eric begin?
(a) Eric’s girlfriend was jealous of her.
(b) Eric proposed to her on their first date.
(c) Eric was Sima’s patient.
(d) They were in graduate school together.

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

4. 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) His father.
(c) His mother.
(d) Donna Selkie.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Adam in New York having a breakdown about his girlfriend in Spain?

2. When Adam understood the language of products, what did he understand them to be saying?

3. What was unique about the box Klaus gave Adam after Adam’s concussion?

4. Where was Darren when he finally called his mother collect, to come get him?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Darren at Clinton Lake?

2. How does the narrator characterize Darren as a roller skater?

3. What explanation does Jonathan give for why his parents and the diplomats drank so much in Taiwan?

4. What is the importance of the painted tissue box?

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

6. How did Adam lose his L-D debate?

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

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

9. What is the one situation that holds numerous times together in the “New York School” chapter?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,029 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample