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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 does Gunnar say he is ready to do?
(a) Lead an armed rebellion.
(b) Die.
(c) Graduate.
(d) Burn up the university.

2. What is the meaning of concatenate?
(a) Play fair.
(b) Bring together.
(c) Take apart.
(d) A strange puzzle.

3. What does the school guidance counselor find unbelievable about Gunnar?
(a) His shyness with girls.
(b) His height.
(c) His lack of school pride.
(d) His high SAT scores.

4. What does Gunnar's mother force him to do during his free time?
(a) Associate with other friends.
(b) Babysit his younger sister.
(c) Work at the local grocery store.
(d) Study for the SAT.

5. What does Gunnar's coach tell him one morning?
(a) The basketball team is going to state finals.
(b) Nick has killed himself.
(c) Gunnar is suspended from play.
(d) Nick is in a mental institution.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Gunnar's bride attained?

2. What does Nick see as the problem with the Boston fire trucks?

3. What does Gunnar decide is the best approach to his speech?

4. What does Gunnar notice about a store as he walks by in Chapter Seven?

5. What do some people think Gunnar's speech at the rally does?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Gunnar find refuge in his new school, how does he get his assignments and why has he been brought to that school?

2. What does Gunnar do when he can find no extracurricular activities to join and want does Gunnar write Yoshiko while on the road?

3. Who arranges a marriage for Gunnar and how does he come up with a bride? Where does the wedding take place?

4. What does Gunnar say to the reporters about suicide?

5. What does Gunnar find out when he gets out of the hospital after the riots and goes to Psycho's house? What does Psycho say to Gunnar?

6. What subject does Nick bring up to Gunnar and what does Nick ask Gunnar?

7. How does the school counselor feel about Gunnar's SAT scores and what happens because of his scores?

8. What does Coach Shimimoto do and say when he keeps the team longer at practice in Chapter Seven?

9. What happens in Chapter Seven when Gunnar arrives at Ms. Kim's store?

10. What does Gunnar's father do after the riots and how does Gunnar feel about it?

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