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

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

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

4. Whose friends did Adam’s friend protect Darren from?
(a) Jason.
(b) Reynolds.
(c) Cody Williams.
(d) Mandy.

5. What event of Jane’s did the Phelpses show up to protest?
(a) A lecture on psychology.
(b) A keynote address.
(c) A reading.
(d) A public discussion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Darren’s inclusion a joke on, according to Adam?

2. What does Adam say it means to be a subject in a supermarket?

3. What does Jane make herself think about Adam, instead of admitting his behavior?

4. What advice did Evanson give Adam in Minneapolis?

5. Why had Jonathan’s family been abroad?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happened to Darren at Clinton Lake?

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

4. What is the importance of the purple cow?

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

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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