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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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) Hitting Norma for betraying him, and then forgiving her.
(b) Beating Bobby up.
(c) Winning a basketball game to get Norma's attention.
(d) Getting horribly injured in Norma's presence and being nursed back to health by her.

4. What year is the Ford that Skipper works through high school to rebuild?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1949.

5. What is the significance of the particularly cruel woman in the crowd during the game being dressed in curlers and toreador pants?
(a) It represents the insensible cruelty of society.
(b) It shows that the woman has no fashion sense.
(c) It shows the woman is crazy or has been the victim of abuse.
(d) It mirrors the falseness of Rosemary's interest in parenting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dwight do on the drive to Chinook?

2. What is the significance of Dwight's story about the salmon that risk their lives on their journey to Chinook, spawn, and then die?

3. Why is Toby afraid to say anything bad about Roy when his mother asks what he thinks about leaving Roy?

4. What is NOT one of the reasons Toby wears his hair slicked back?

5. What is Toby's mother's name?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the boys Toby is friends with in Seattle.

2. Describe Toby's basketball game against Van Horn.

3. What do Toby and Pearl do in the car while they wait for Rosemary and Dwight outside the Marblemount tavern?

4. What does Rosemary say to Toby about Dwight?

5. How does the Vice Principal find out who vandalized the bathroom wall?

6. What does Toby hope to do in Chinook?

7. Describe Toby and Gil's conversation about bikes.

8. When Toby arrives at Dwight's house, how does he treat Toby? Provide specific examples.

9. What is Toby's attitude toward Dwight?

10. How does Dwight react to the news of Toby's fight?

(see the answer keys)

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