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

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

3. What event prompts Toby to rethink forgiving his father for abandoning him?
(a) Dwight constantly belittles Toby's father.
(b) Rosemary admitting to Toby that his father never liked him.
(c) The birth of Toby's first child.
(d) Toby and his father meet again and do not get along.

4. Why does Toby steal things?
(a) His friends dare him.
(b) He gets great satisfaction from stealing.
(c) Stealing is the only way he can get the things he wants.
(d) He wants to prove how cool he is.

5. What did the note from Sister James say?
(a) It invited Toby's family to a church potluck.
(b) It praised Toby and his involvement in his catechism classes.
(c) It expressed concern about Toby's after school activities.
(d) It asked Toby's mother to call Sister James.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Roy go with Toby and his mother when they move?

2. Which of the following did Rosemary's father NOT do?

3. Why doesn't Rosemary live with Toby and Dwight?

4. How does Toby plan to convince the people he meets that he is a jock or a brain?

5. What does Toby say while in the bathroom that he did over Thanksgiving?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Dwight and Toby pretend to have a normal relationship when Rosemary visits?

2. What sins does Toby confess before his baptism? Why does he confess these sins?

3. Describe how Toby and Roy act towards Toby's mother.

4. What does Rosemary say to Toby about Dwight?

5. How does the car look when Skipper returns from Mexico? How does Skipper feel about the car?

6. What happens at the Thanksgiving turkey shoot?

7. Describe Toby's mother.

8. What do Toby and his mother believe about their new life in Utah?

9. How does Toby react when Roy asks him if he would like a little brother?

10. Describe Rosemary's father.

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