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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say the music and the skating suggested to Darren and his friends?
(a) Sex.
(b) Power.
(c) Sports.
(d) Inebriation.

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

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

5. What was Jane told made her Christmas gift special?
(a) It was created specifically for her.
(b) It was one of a kind.
(c) It was made for her in particular.
(d) It was painted by trained animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What fueled Darren’s rage when the girl his friends pushed on him called him a homophobic slur?

2. Where had Jonathan’s family lived before they went abroad?

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

4. How does Jonathan characterize the sound of adults’ voices while his family lived abroad?

5. How does the narrator characterize Darren’s skating ability at the roller rink?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Jonathan’s experience in the bathhouse, and how did it affect him?

2. What is the difference between extemp and Lincoln-Douglass debate?

3. In what ways did Adam and his friend shift their aggression into the realm of language?

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

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

6. What happened to Darren at Clinton Lake?

7. In what condition did Darren wake up at Clinton Lake?

8. What aspect of Adam’s friends’ culture led to the melee that started with Reynolds and Darren?

9. What is the narrator’s relationship with Darren’s hike back from Clinton Lake?

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

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