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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Uncool (pgs. 57-64).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why doesn't Toby like Dwight?
(a) Because Dwight is mean to Toby.
(b) Because Dwight is a pleaser.
(c) Because Dwight tries to discipline Toby.
(d) Because Toby is afraid Dwight will make them move.

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

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

4. Why are Toby and his mother leaving Florida for Utah?
(a) Toby's mother thinks Toby will receive a better education there.
(b) Toby's mother has been offered a job in Utah.
(c) They are trying to escape Toby's mother's boyfriend.
(d) Toby's father lives in Utah.

5. Why does Toby steal things?
(a) He gets great satisfaction from stealing.
(b) His friends dare him.
(c) Stealing is the only way he can get the things he wants.
(d) He wants to prove how cool he is.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Toby and his mother settle?

2. What does Gil call Toby?

3. What is the condition under which Toby's mother agrees to let him change his name?

4. Why is Toby afraid to say anything bad about Roy when his mother asks what he thinks about leaving Roy?

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

(see the answer key)

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