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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. Why does Toby try to spend more time with Pearl?
(a) Mr. Bolger suggested it.
(b) Toby misses Pearl.
(c) Toby feels bad about leaving her with Dwight.
(d) She feels abandoned by Rosemary.

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

3. What does Rosemary tell Toby about his father's time at Deerfield?
(a) It prepared Toby's father for a successful future.
(b) He was the only person ever expelled from the school.
(c) Toby's father hated the teachers.
(d) None of the other students spoke to Toby's father.

4. What does Toby buy at a drugstore?
(a) Pipe tobacco and Old Spice.
(b) Cigarettes.
(c) Beef jerky and whiskey.
(d) Condoms and alcohol.

5. Where does Toby plan to go when he steals checks from a bank?
(a) Pennsylvania.
(b) Stanford.
(c) Alaska.
(d) Princeton.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Arthur discovers that Toby has spent all his money, Arthur:

2. Which of the following things can Toby not forgive himself for?

3. Why did Dwight give Champion to Toby?

4. What does Mr. Howard think will be difficult for Toby to adjust to at Hill?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Norma's boyfriend Kenneth.

2. How does Toby find a letter from Rosemary's brother, Stephen? What does Toby do about it?

3. How do Toby and Dwight say goodbye to each other?

4. Do you think Rosemary did the right thing when she separated her sons? Provide specific examples in your answer.

5. Why does Geoffrey think Toby can get a scholarship from a prep school? What efforts does Toby make to be accepted by a prep school?

6. Why does Arthur tell lies? What lies does he tell? Why doesn't Toby say anything when he knows the things Arthur says aren't true?

7. Describe a smoker.

8. Why can't Toby apologize to the Welshes? How do Chuck and Mr. Bolger react to this?

9. How much money does Toby take to the Gathering of the Tribes? Where did he get this money, and what does he plan to do with it? Does he succeed?

10. Why does Toby take Dwight's guns?

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