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

2. How does the narrator leave the party he attends with Josie?

3. As an adult, the narrator lives in what type of dwelling?

4. What does Howie do now, since quitting high school?

5. While the narrator is watering the lawn, who walks by?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Wimpy Doll?

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

3. What conflict exists for the narrator regarding the night of the party that he's invited to by Josephine?

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

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

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

7. Why does the narrator grow more and more uncomfortable at the party with Josephine?

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

9. How does the narrator prepare for his date with Josephine?

10. Describe how the narrator prepares for his date with Daphne.

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

Compare and contrast the narrator's expectations of his date with Josie and the reality of how the date turns out. What lessons does he learn through this experience? How does he behave after this date? What mistakes will he probably not make again?

Essay Topic 3

1. Explain how the author chooses to lead up to the Shepherd family's experiences at the County Fair.

2. Is this method of starting with a present event and then looking back across time an effective one? Why or why not?

3. Is this technique used in other stories in the book? If so, cite at least one more example and analyze its effectiveness.

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