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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Uncool (pgs. 37-47).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Toby's favorite after school activity?
(a) Reading comic books.
(b) Watching television.
(c) Pretending to shoot people with his rifle from inside the apartment.
(d) Writing letters to his penpal.

2. Why does Toby want Roy's Winchester .22 rifle?
(a) Having Roy's rifle would be an honor.
(b) He wants to shoot at cats in the churchyard.
(c) Toby believes it will give him a powerful, manly identity.
(d) He wants to impress his friends.

3. What is the upsetting question Roy asks Toby?
(a) What Toby would think of having a little brother.
(b) If Toby wanted to go on a trip with Roy.
(c) If Toby had been playing with the gun unsupervised.
(d) How much Toby loved his mother.

4. How does Toby's mother decide where they are moving?
(a) She asks Toby where he would like to live.
(b) She has a job prospect in another state.
(c) She picks a city at random.
(d) Friends have invited her to stay with them.

5. What do Toby and his mother do during the evenings?
(a) They have dinner at a local church.
(b) They go for walks and fantasize about buying houses.
(c) Toby's mother helps him with his schoolwork.
(d) Toby's mother flirts with the landlord while Toby is left alone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the housekeeper's boyfriend show Toby pictures of his friends and corpses?

2. What do Roy and Toby do every day?

3. Where do Toby and his mother settle?

4. Why doesn't Toby's mother want him to take the rifle to Seattle with them?

5. Why are Toby and his mother leaving Florida for Utah?

(see the answer key)

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