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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Story 8, Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As an adult, the narrator is a former what?
(a) Police officer.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Husband.
(d) GI.

2. What does the Old Man believe regarding one's prom date?
(a) The boy must show utter and complete respect towards his date.
(b) She should look better than the boy she's with.
(c) She should not wear a trashy dress.
(d) The choice for prom date can foretell one's future.

3. The winner of the spinning top battle between Farkas and the narrator could very well do what?
(a) Change life at Warren G. Harding School.
(b) Demand lunch money from the kids gathered there.
(c) Intimidate the other kids all the way through high school.
(d) Beat up the loser.

4. During the family's road trip to Michigan, why does Mother suddenly insist that the Old Man stop the car?
(a) She knows Randy is about to throw up.
(b) They haven't had a bathroom stop in six hours.
(c) The contents of the car have shifted and she's getting squished by supplies.
(d) She needs to check on the narrator, who looks overheated and dehydrated.

5. During Spring semester in Biology II class, Daphne is what?
(a) Assigned to tutor the narrator in class.
(b) Showing romantic interest in the narrator.
(c) Absent for three weeks.
(d) Assigned to be the narrator's lab partner.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how many years does the Shepherd family take its annual pilgrimage to Clear Lake?

2. How does the narrator describe the sound that his spinning top makes?

3. The narrator is ecstatic in his Biology II class because of what?

4. In Story One, what sport does Delbert disrupt in gym class?

5. When the narrator emerges from the bathroom after bathing and grooming for his date with the girl next door, what condition is the bathroom in?

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