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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Randy and Marty argue about as Buddy and his friends drive away from the house they’ve demolished in Part One?
(a) The merits of ketchup and mustard
(b) Whether or not they should have trashed the house
(c) Whether or not the girl was killed
(d) Whether or not the girl was raped

2. What is the name of the woman that Buddy’s father has been having an affair with, according to Buddy’s sister in Part One?
(a) Diane
(b) Sarah
(c) Fay
(d) Michelle

3. How many rooms comprise the “Cape Cod cottage” that is trashed in the beginning of the novel?
(a) 3 rooms
(b) 10 rooms
(c) 7 rooms
(d) 5 rooms

4. Buddy Walker is described as breaking “the mirror of the girl’s bedroom, using” what, in Part One?
(a) A new baseball bat
(b) An iron crowbar
(c) The Statue of Liberty
(d) His bare hands

5. What kind of dead animal does Mr. Jerome describe having found in his mailbox in the past year when he’s speaking to the police detective after the vandalism in Part One?
(a) A turtle
(b) A squirrel
(c) A bird
(d) A rabbit

6. How many beer cans are left behind from the home invaders in the beginning of Part One?
(a) 43
(b) 30
(c) 23
(d) 35

7. Which of Jane Jerome’s friends is described as “a giggler” in Part One?
(a) Leslie Cairns
(b) Patti Amarelli
(c) Karen Wilson
(d) Jennifer Smith

8. What is Buddy’s little sister’s name in the novel?
(a) Jennifer Walker
(b) Christina Walker
(c) Addy Walker
(d) Sarah Walker

9. Who was the pastor at Jane’s old Methodist church in Monument, according to the narrator in Part One?
(a) Pastor Paul Skawinski
(b) Pastor William Smith
(c) Pastor Michael James
(d) Pastor Steven Williams

10. What is one of the few things that the home invaders did not break in the Jerome home, according to Jane in Part One?
(a) Glasses
(b) Mirrors
(c) Bottles
(d) Windows

11. What do Harry and his gang blow up outside of Wickburg with Harry’s fireworks in Part One?
(a) Cows
(b) Sheds
(c) Mailboxes
(d) Billboards

12. Where do Buddy and his friends stop to clean up after trashing the Jerome home and attacking Karen in Part One?
(a) The First Congregational Church
(b) Wickburg Regional
(c) The mall
(d) Jedson Park

13. What does Harry constantly call his friends after the vandalism and attack as they leave the Jerome home that Buddy considers to be Harry’s “black talk”?
(a) Boyz
(b) Dogs
(c) Crips
(d) Bloods

14. How much weekly allowance does Buddy receive from his mother after his father has left the household in Part One?
(a) $5
(b) $15
(c) $10
(d) $25

15. To what city do Artie’s parents take him to see a doctor when his night terrors begin in Part One?
(a) Boston
(b) Monument
(c) Oakland
(d) Springfield

Short Answer Questions

1. At what time does Karen Jerome arrive home during the home invasion in the beginning of Part One?

2. How does the narrator describe Buddy’s mother in Part One?

3. At what time does the narrator say the home invaders leave the Jerome home after trashing it in the beginning of Part One?

4. What position does Mr. Jerome have at the telephone company where he works in Part One?

5. The damage estimated on the home that is invaded in the opening of the novel is how much?

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