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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 did Jane defuse Adam’s meltdown when he could not reach his girlfriend?
(a) She said the connection was bad.
(b) She asked him about the purple cow.
(c) She told him she loved him.
(d) She reminded him of his accomplishments.

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

3. Who did Amber thank for dinner before Jane’s event?
(a) Jane.
(b) Adam.
(c) Jonathan.
(d) Sima.

4. How does Jonathan characterize the sound of adults’ voices while his family lived abroad?
(a) Like the sound of the trombone for the teacher’s voice in Peanuts.
(b) Like a constant alarm going off.
(c) Like the sound of lowball classes clinking with ice and alcohol.
(d) Like the sound of unintelligible foreign languages.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the reader learn that Darren’s directional instincts were wrong?

2. How often would Adam work with Evanson?

3. Who paid for dinner before Jane’s event?

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

5. What did Jonathan specialize in at the Topeka Foundation?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where did Darren walk to, and where did he end up, before he got a ride home?

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

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

5. How does Adam characterize his circle’s relationship with Darren?

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

7. What is Adam’s relationship with Peter Evanson?

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

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

10. How did the time at the roller rink return seven years later in the basement at Jason’s party?

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