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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Arthur act like a sissy as they prepare to go home?
(a) He wants to show who he really is.
(b) He doesn't like Dwight, and he knows acting like a sissy will bother Dwight.
(c) He snuck some of Dwight's beer and got drunk.
(d) He is pretending to be gay.

2. How does Dwight react when he learns Toby may move to Paris?
(a) He is furious.
(b) He is completely indifferent.
(c) He tells Rosemary Toby has to leave.
(d) He tells Toby positive things about the French, following each comment with an ignorant insult.

3. What does Toby find in Dwight's room?
(a) The old horse chestnuts.
(b) Scouting paperwork Dwight was supposed to turn in.
(c) Toby's old Winchester.
(d) A gigantic stash of Old Crow.

4. Toby says the Irish tenor in the Champagne Orchestra is singing for his life. This mirrors how Toby feels about:
(a) His relationship with his father.
(b) His mother's attitude toward their life.
(c) His struggles to create new identities.
(d) His interactions with Dwight.

5. How does Toby spend his $80?
(a) On food and games.
(b) On two bus tickets to Alaska.
(c) He loses it in a poker game.
(d) He buys souvenirs for Pearl.

6. Why do Toby and his friends steal gas from the Welsh farm?
(a) Huff has dared them to do it.
(b) They want to drive to Bellingham.
(c) They hate the Welsh family.
(d) They want to re-sell the gas.

7. Why does Rosemary get a cease and desist order against Dwight?
(a) Dwight tried to get Rosemary fired.
(b) Dwight tries to strangle her.
(c) Dwight threatened to kill Toby.
(d) Dwight is stalking her.

8. When Dwight takes Pearl with him to Seattle, he says he wants to see Norma. Pearl knows that:
(a) Dwight wants to see Rosemary and will use Pearl to get what he wants from Rosemary.
(b) Dwight wants to use what Norma has become as a bad example for Pearl.
(c) Dwight doesn't trust Pearl alone in the house.
(d) Dwight wants to make Toby feel left out.

9. How does Dwight react when he finds out Toby got Dwight's car stuck in a ditch?
(a) He hides the car keys.
(b) He beats Toby and leaves him.
(c) He lectures Toby about "stealing" the car.
(d) He grounds Toby.

10. Why does Rosemary campaign for Senator Jackson and John F. Kennedy?
(a) She is attracted to Kennedy.
(b) They are hopeful.
(c) She believes they will change the world.
(d) She wants to spend time away from Dwight.

11. Why is Dwight nice to Rosemary after Toby leaves?
(a) He has come into some money.
(b) He has found religion.
(c) Toby is out of the house.
(d) He knows she is trying to leave.

12. Why does no one stop the store clerk running after Toby?
(a) Toby has a gun.
(b) Her cries sound like those of a mother running after a son.
(c) There is no one else around.
(d) No one cares.

13. What does Rosemary tell Toby about his father's time at Deerfield?
(a) He was the only person ever expelled from the school.
(b) It prepared Toby's father for a successful future.
(c) None of the other students spoke to Toby's father.
(d) Toby's father hated the teachers.

14. What is the only thing of Toby's in the house?
(a) His old brown loafers.
(b) Old report cards.
(c) There is nothing of Toby's left in the house.
(d) His Scout uniform.

15. Why is Toby not excited at first about being accepted at Hill?
(a) He would rather join the Army.
(b) He doesn't want to leave his friends.
(c) He is losing faith in his own future.
(d) He is having second thoughts about going to a new school.

Short Answer Questions

1. Toby considers ________ to be home.

2. What does Dwight find in the trash that prompts him to hit Toby?

3. What is it about Toby and Chuck's confession that makes Mr. Bolger feel better?

4. Why does Toby try to spend more time with Pearl?

5. Why doesn't Toby engage the easy girls his friends find for him?

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