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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) Valentine's Day Dance.
(b) Inaugural Prom.
(c) Junior Prom.
(d) Homecoming.

2. What is the name of the new girl next door whom the narrator is smitten by?
(a) Christine.
(b) Josephine.
(c) Justine.
(d) Caroline.

3. How does the narrator invite the girl of his dreams on a date?
(a) Romantically.
(b) Awkwardly.
(c) With a note.
(d) Has a friend ask for him.

4. When the doorman retrieves a childhood toy for the adult narrator, who does he have to fight for it?
(a) Senile old man who found it.
(b) Thrift shop owner.
(c) Local auctioneer.
(d) Little boy who had picked it up.

5. When the narrator goes to Pulaski's grocery store on an errand for Mother, he talks to Howie, who used to do what?
(a) March with the band.
(b) Play high school football.
(c) Play on his softball team.
(d) Sing with the high school men's choir.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator get to the Bigelow family's neighborhood?

2. By the time Josie and the narrator have reached their homes walking from the grocery store, what has transpired?

3. The night of his date with Josie, the narrator arrives with what?

4. What is the second item the narrator pulls out of the package he receives as an adult?

5. The Bigelow family's chauffeur drives Daphne and the narrator to the Orpheum in what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the adult narrator's fire chief hat?

2. Describe the narrator's first major encounter with Josephine.

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

4. With the Bumpuses long gone, who finally moves in next door to the Shepherds?

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

6. What are some of the items the narrator finds in the box of toys his mother sends him when he's an adult?

7. Why do the narrator and his friends parade back and forth in front of the Cosnowskis' house?

8. What impression does the narrator make on Mr. Bigelow, Daphne's dad?

9. Describe the narrator's experience as he waits for Josephine to finish getting ready for their date.

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

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