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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 biggest event of the narrator's junior year in high school?
(a) Homecoming.
(b) Inaugural Prom.
(c) Valentine's Day Dance.
(d) Junior Prom.

2. What does the narrator say that his family puts on their typical meals of meatloaf, red cabbage, and mashed potatoes?
(a) Tons of salt.
(b) Buckets of tabasco sauce.
(c) Gallons of ketchup.
(d) An overabundance of pepper.

3. In the community, who is Maxwell Bigelow, Daphne's father?
(a) Chairman of the bank.
(b) Chief architect.
(c) Vice president of a steel company.
(d) Town mayor.

4. As the narrator waters the lawn and ponders his prom fate, how does he distract himself?
(a) By thinking about the most recent science fiction novel he's read.
(b) By watching his neighbor Josephine through the window.
(c) By occasionally spraying his younger brother.
(d) By scheming how he's going to get out of having to attend prom.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Before the narrator can invite a girl to the Spring Dance, he decides that first they must what?

2. In his daydreams, the narrator envisions himself impressing his lady friend with what dance?

3. When the doorman retrieves a childhood toy for the adult narrator, who does he have to fight for it?

4. When the narrator opens a package that he receives as an adult, what is the first item he pulls out?

5. During what holiday do we find the narrator at the start of Story 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator compare the prom to?

2. Why doesn't the narrator ask Daphne Bigelow to the prom?

3. When the narrator asks Daphne out on a date, and she agrees, what daydreams go through his mind?

4. How does the narrator ask Wanda Hickey to the prom?

5. How does the narrator's family react when he says that he's asked Daphne Bigelow out on a date?

6. Describe Daphne Bigelow, the girl of the narrator's dreams.

7. How does the narrator's date with Daphne end?

8. How does the narrator's date with Josephine end?

9. What is the Wimpy Doll?

10. Where does the narrator live when he is an adult?

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