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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event prompts Toby to rethink forgiving his father for abandoning him?
(a) Dwight constantly belittles Toby's father.
(b) Toby and his father meet again and do not get along.
(c) The birth of Toby's first child.
(d) Rosemary admitting to Toby that his father never liked him.

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

3. Toby is crushed when he realizes that Bobby and Norma were having sex while he played basketball. What does this prompt Toby to fantasize about?
(a) Beating Bobby up.
(b) Getting horribly injured in Norma's presence and being nursed back to health by her.
(c) Hitting Norma for betraying him, and then forgiving her.
(d) Winning a basketball game to get Norma's attention.

4. What does Toby say while in the bathroom that he did over Thanksgiving?
(a) Shot and killed a turkey.
(b) Kissed a girl.
(c) Won a shooting contest.
(d) Visited his mother's boyfriend in Chinook.

5. Why does Skipper decide not to take Toby with him to Mexico?
(a) Skipper will not be going to Mexico.
(b) Dwight said Toby couldn't go.
(c) Skipper doesn't want Toby to come.
(d) There won't be any room for Toby to sleep in the car.

6. Where do Dwight and his family live?
(a) The outskirts of a nice neighborhood.
(b) In a derelict house.
(c) A few miles away from Skipper and Norma's high school.
(d) A converted war barrack that housed German prisoners of war.

7. What does Dwight do when Toby needs new shoes?
(a) Buys several pairs of shoes in different sizes.
(b) Buys brown loafers that Toby must use for everything.
(c) Forces Toby to wear the shoes he has outgrown.
(d) Makes Toby pay for new shoes.

8. Why doesn't Toby's mother want him to take the rifle to Seattle with them?
(a) She doesn't think Toby deserves to have the rifle.
(b) She doesn't like guns, and it won't fit in the car.
(c) She thinks Toby likes Roy better than he likes her.
(d) She's afraid it will cause trouble.

9. What does Toby's mother believe she will get a job doing in Utah?
(a) Waitressing.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Mining uranium.
(d) Managing a hotel.

10. What does Dwight make Toby do to keep him busy?
(a) His homework.
(b) Husk horse chestnuts and get a paper route.
(c) Find odd jobs around the neighborhood.
(d) Clean the house.

11. What is the significance of Dwight's story about the salmon that risk their lives on their journey to Chinook, spawn, and then die?
(a) Unlike Rosemary, Dwight believes it takes hard work and determination to get what you want.
(b) Life is a long and ultimately fruitless journey.
(c) Dwight would like to take Toby fishing.
(d) The same will happen to Toby and his mother if they move to Chinook.

12. What is the name of Toby's biological brother?
(a) Gregory.
(b) Arthur.
(c) Michael.
(d) Terry.

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

14. What does Dwight do on the drive to Chinook?
(a) He talks with Toby and asks about his interests.
(b) He hits a beaver walking across the road.
(c) He asks questions about Rosemary.
(d) He tells Toby how happy he is to have Toby in his life.

15. What does the contrast between the piano's black keys and the rest of Dwight's house symbolize?
(a) Life is never perfect.
(b) The family's "new beginning" is tainted.
(c) The house is dirty.
(d) There are only slight imperfections in Dwight and Rosemary's relationship.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Toby's mother returns from dinner with Gil?

2. What is the upsetting question Roy asks Toby?

3. Why does Rosemary continue to make bad choices?

4. Which of the following did Rosemary's father NOT do?

5. Why do Toby and his mother go to a house belonging to two strange men?

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