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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why doesn't Toby engage the easy girls his friends find for him?
(a) He only wants to have sex with a girl he loves.
(b) He wants to make his own conquests.
(c) He promised his priest he wouldn't have sex until he married.
(d) The girls intimidate him.

2. 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.

3. When does Toby get excited about the fight?
(a) When he hears the crowd chanting his name.
(b) When Mr. Mitchell assigns him to the fight.
(c) He doesn't get excited about the fight.
(d) When Dwight shows him a special move.

4. What does Toby think is funny while at the tailor?
(a) The tailor calls him Mr. Wolff with a straight face.
(b) He is given so many clothes.
(c) So much care is being put into making Toby look the part.
(d) The Howards think he is deserving of what they're giving him.

5. Why does Toby assume the name Thomas Findon?
(a) No one cares about Findon and would not investigate fraudulent checks with his name.
(b) It is Rosemary's grandfather's name.
(c) Findon, a fellow Scout, has all the qualities Toby thinks a man ought to have.
(d) Toby read the name in a book.

6. What convinces Rosemary that she does not want to spend time with Arthur and Geoffrey?
(a) Arthur refuses to let Toby speak with Rosemary.
(b) Geoffrey commits Arthur to the Buena Vista Sanatorium.
(c) Toby tells Rosemary how much he likes Arthur.
(d) Whenever Rosemary calls to speak with Toby, Arthur's girlfriend answers.

7. Whenever Rosemary suggests that Toby go for a ride with Dwight, all Toby can think of is:
(a) Dwight taking Champion for a ride in the car and shooting him.
(b) Realizing that his mother doesn't love him.
(c) Every time he's ridden with Dwight when Dwight is drunk.
(d) Bearing the consequences of his mother's actions.

8. Toby tells his family he will not be moving to Paris because:
(a) He wants to join the Army.
(b) He does not want to change his last name.
(c) He wants to attend school in the U.S.
(d) He does not want to leave his friends.

9. What do Dwight and Toby find when they go upstairs to retrieve the chestnuts Toby peeled?
(a) The towel the chestnuts were resting on is completely orange.
(b) The chestnuts are covered in mold and the road kill "beaver pelt" is nearly petrified.
(c) A mouse has made a nest in Dwight's "beaver pelt."
(d) Something has eaten most of the chestnuts.

10. Which of the following does Chuck NOT do after he talks with the sheriff?
(a) Tell the "Wolfman" that he loves him.
(b) Cry.
(c) Pound his fists on the floor of his room.
(d) Laugh.

11. Why does Toby remain on morphine while he is in the hospital?
(a) It keeps him from thinking and worrying.
(b) He sweet-talks a nurse into giving it to him.
(c) The physical pain is too much to bear.
(d) Dwight wants him to, so that Toby won't say anything about his terrible home life.

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

13. Toby considers ________ to be home.
(a) Geoffrey.
(b) Rosemary and Pearl.
(c) Hill.
(d) Chuck and Chinook.

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

15. Which of the following things can Toby not forgive himself for?
(a) Cruelty.
(b) Cheating.
(c) Lying.
(d) Stealing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Toby feel about the information he writes on his letters of recommendation and transcripts?

2. What does Rosemary tell Toby about his father's time at Deerfield?

3. What is the only thing of Toby's in the house?

4. Why is Dwight nice to Rosemary after Toby leaves?

5. What is Toby surprised about while at the tailor?

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