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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. During what holiday do we find the narrator at the start of Story 7?
(a) Halloween.
(b) Christmas.
(c) Easter.
(d) Valentine's Day.

2. Once inside the party location with Josie, the narrator realizes he's at a what?
(a) Community center.
(b) Church.
(c) School.
(d) Movie theater.

3. By the end of the formal dance, the narrator says that flowers are wilted, jackets are limp, and what else?
(a) Everybody's ready for a milkshake.
(b) His car is soaked from a passing rain shower.
(c) People are gasping for air.
(d) Everyone's sick of the whole mess.

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 scheming how he's going to get out of having to attend prom.
(d) By occasionally spraying his younger brother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Mother wants the narrator to invite which girl to the prom?

2. Who answers the door when the narrator goes to Daphne's house?

3. The narrator and his date accompany another couple to the prom on a double-date. Who is the other couple?

4. In Daphne's neighborhood, the narrator notices that there is no smell of oil refineries in the air and even what?

5. One of the adult narrator's prized collections is a set of first edition comics of what cartoon?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe some of the pre-prom rituals.

2. After the prom, Schwartz and the narrator take their dates to the Rooster. What happens there?

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

4. What does the narrator compare the prom to?

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

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

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

8. How does the narrator get his fire chief hat back?

9. What is the Wimpy Doll?

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

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