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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 mirrors the falseness of Rosemary's interest in parenting.
(b) It shows the woman is crazy or has been the victim of abuse.
(c) It shows that the woman has no fashion sense.
(d) It represents the insensible cruelty of society.

2. How does Dwight react when Rosemary wins the turkey shoot?
(a) He congratulates her.
(b) He blames his performance on Toby.
(c) He becomes jealous of the other men congratulating her.
(d) He storms into his room and pouts when they return home.

3. What color do Toby and Dwight paint the house?
(a) Red.
(b) Black.
(c) They do not paint the house.
(d) White.

4. Why do Toby and his mother leave Moab, Utah?
(a) Any mining fortune to be made has already been made.
(b) Toby's mother decides to return to her hometown in California.
(c) Moab's schools are not suitable for Toby.
(d) Toby's mother is offered a job in Salt Lake City.

5. What does Dwight do when Toby walks by the makeshift practice range in the hallway?
(a) Aims the barrel of his gun at Toby until Toby leaves the room.
(b) Shoots at Toby but misses due to his poor aim.
(c) Waits until Toby is gone to continue shooting.
(d) Yells at Toby to get out of the way.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Toby's mother was little, she rode in a parade float called the "End of the Rainbow." What does this suggest about Toby's mother?

2. What is the name of Toby's biological brother?

3. What does Gil call Toby?

4. Why does Toby allow others to think he won the fight with Arthur?

5. When Dwight drives drunk after visiting Marblemount tavern, Pearl grabs Toby when Dwight takes sharp curves. What does this show about Pearl and Toby's relationship?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Toby shoots a squirrel?

2. What happens after Arthur makes a comment about Toby's orange hands?

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

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

5. What does Skipper say when Toby asks to come with him to Mexico? Does his answer change later?

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

7. Describe Rosemary's father.

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

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

10. Why do Toby, Silver, and Taylor watch the Mickey Mouse Club?

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