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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the narrator do when he meets Josie on the way home from Pulaski's store?
2. One of the adult narrator's prized collections is a set of first edition comics of what cartoon?
3. The narrator notes that Howie used to be fun, but now he's always what?
4. Why do the narrator and his friends parade in front of their neighbors' house after a new family moves in?
5. What is the narrator wearing on his date with Daphne?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the narrator's date with Daphne end?
2. Describe the narrator's experience as he waits for Josephine to finish getting ready for their date.
3. How does the narrator's prom night end?
4. How does the narrator get his fire chief hat back?
5. Describe some of the pre-prom rituals.
6. Describe Daphne Bigelow, the girl of the narrator's dreams.
7. Why does the narrator grow more and more uncomfortable at the party with Josephine?
8. When the narrator asks Daphne out on a date, and she agrees, what daydreams go through his mind?
9. After the prom, Schwartz and the narrator take their dates to the Rooster. What happens there?
10. What does the narrator compare the prom to?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast the Shepherd and the Bumpus families.
1. In what ways do the Bumpuses annoy the Old Man and his family?
2. Despite the stark differences between the Shepherds and the Bumpuses, what makes each family bizarre and eccentric in its own way?
Essay Topic 2
Explain how the author uses the following literary tools to make a point or accentuate the humorous and ridiculous aspects of a situation:
a. exaggeration
b. contrast
Cite at least two examples from the book to support your explanations.
Essay Topic 3
After the narrator opens a box that he receives as an adult and peruses through the childhood treasures found inside, he decides to pack everything back up and hide it on the top shelf of a closet. Explain what this says about the author's viewpoint on stirring up the past.
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