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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Toby react when he and Mr. Howard overhear Huff having an embarrassing conversation?
(a) He tells Huff to shut up.
(b) He asks Mr. Howard if they can leave.
(c) He ignores Huff and hopes Mr. Howard won't hear.
(d) He makes a face to show he is disgusted with the conversation.

3. What does Toby notice about Veronica's children?
(a) They are too morose to play.
(b) They do not look like their father.
(c) They have no hopes or dreams.
(d) Their home life is no better than his.

4. Toby never calls Arthur a liar because:
(a) He know they both tell lies as a way to escape their lives.
(b) Toby is afraid to get in another fight with Arthur.
(c) He respects Arthur's skill at lying.
(d) Toby doesn't want to hurt Arthur's feelings.

5. What event prompts Rosemary to declare she and Toby will leave Dwight's house?
(a) Dwight beats Toby for drinking some of his Old Crow.
(b) Dwight threatens to kill Rosemary.
(c) Toby falls and lands on his injured arm when Dwight pushes him.
(d) Rosemary is offered a job in Seattle.

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

7. 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.

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

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

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

11. Dwight really got the dog:
(a) To help him hunt.
(b) To irritate the neighbors.
(c) Because Rosemary thought Champion was cute.
(d) To guard the house.

12. How does Toby respond when Mr. Howard warns him that he might have a rough time at Hill?
(a) Toby tells Mr. Howard how rough his life has already been.
(b) Toby admits he is nervous about Hill.
(c) Toby says he is dead set on going.
(d) Toby says he knows he can deal with it.

13. When they discuss Toby's move to Paris, Rosemary tells Toby:
(a) She can't imagine life without Toby.
(b) She wants him to go to Paris.
(c) Dwight has said Toby must go.
(d) The decision to go to Paris is his.

14. What does Dwight find in the trash that prompts him to hit Toby?
(a) An empty bottle of vodka.
(b) The rotted chestnuts and beaver pelt.
(c) Shell casings.
(d) A mustard bottle with a few specks of mustard left.

15. When Toby falls from a tree branch down a concrete hill, what demonstrates his disinterest in saving his own life?
(a) Climbing the tree branch.
(b) He does not cry for help.
(c) Drinking Hawaiian Punch and vodka.
(d) His hands are in his pockets.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Arthur do when Toby arrives in California?

2. After Rosemary and Toby talk about Toby's remaining tuition, Rosemary looks like she has dropped a burden. It is unclear if she is talking about:

3. Why does Tina Flood want to marry Chuck even though she doesn't know for sure that she is carrying his child?

4. What do Dwight and Toby find when they go upstairs to retrieve the chestnuts Toby peeled?

5. Why won't Rosemary speak to Toby after the fight?

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