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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Roy and Toby do every day?
(a) Read a book.
(b) Shoot cans.
(c) Wait for Toby's mother to follow her home from work.
(d) Make dinner before Toby's mother comes home.

2. Why doesn't Rosemary allow Marian to set Toby straight?
(a) Rosemary feels Marian is encroaching on her parenting.
(b) Rosemary doesn't care what Toby does.
(c) Rosemary doesn't believe Toby is acting poorly.
(d) Rosemary says Toby is a good kid, and she doesn't believe in discipline.

3. What does Arthur say that causes Toby to make fun of Arthur's weight?
(a) Arthur insulted Toby's mother.
(b) Toby wants to look cool.
(c) Arthur makes a comment about Toby's orange hands.
(d) Toby is joining in with other boys.

4. How does Dwight react to Toby's involvement in the fight?
(a) He is proud.
(b) He takes away the money Toby makes on his paper route.
(c) He becomes very angry and beats Toby.
(d) He doesn't care.

5. Why do Dwight and Toby pretend to have a normal family relationship when Rosemary visits?
(a) Toby wants a family life even if it's not perfect.
(b) Toby is afraid he will hurt his mother's feelings if she sees how unhappy he is.
(c) Dwight threatens Toby and forces him to act happy.
(d) Toby wants his mother to marry Dwight.

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

7. What does Gil call Toby?
(a) Jack.
(b) Judd.
(c) Tory.
(d) Mike.

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

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

10. Why does Skipper go to Tijuana, Mexico?
(a) To get away from Dwight and the family.
(b) To marry his high school sweetheart.
(c) To look for work.
(d) To have the interior of his car upholstered.

11. What does Toby's mother do when she feels guilty about how he is treated?
(a) Justifies his treatment by saying, "That's the way life is."
(b) Tries to buy his affection.
(c) Tells him how much she loves him.
(d) Promises she will try to change.

12. What is the condition under which Toby's mother agrees to let him change his name?
(a) He agrees to complete catechism classes.
(b) He does more chores around the house.
(c) He will concentrate harder on his schoolwork.
(d) He spends more time with her and her boyfriend.

13. 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.

14. Where does the vice principal accuse Toby of vandalizing the bathroom wall?
(a) The nurse's office.
(b) Toby's classroom.
(c) The bathroom.
(d) The main office.

15. What do Rosemary and Toby do when they leave the West Seattle apartment?
(a) Move in with Gil.
(b) Return to live with Roy.
(c) Find a different apartment.
(d) Move into a house scheduled for demolition.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event prompts Toby to rethink forgiving his father for abandoning him?

2. Who takes Toby to his basketball games when Rosemary is working?

3. What does Dwight do when Toby walks by the makeshift practice range in the hallway?

4. Why do Toby and his mother believe they will be successful in Utah?

5. Why does Arthur punch Toby?

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