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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. With which of the following does "14 November 2015" begin?
(a) “My Thanksgiving nightmare began with family pictures.”
(b) “Life isn’t fair.”
(c) “Lunch raged around us.”
(d) “It’s unveiled at the Commercial Electronics Show in Las Vegas.”

2. What does Diego note is his favorite kind of cake?
(a) German chocolate.
(b) Carrot.
(c) Pineapple upside-down.
(d) Spice.

3. In what year is the plight of bees first noticed?
(a) 2006.
(b) 2000.
(c) 2012.
(d) 1994.

4. With which of the following does "18 December 2015" begin?
(a) “The first time I visited Nana at the nursing home I expected to find her alone in a dreary room.”
(b) “When scientists at NASA first observe the sun dimming, a small division is funded to study the phenomenon.”
(c) “If I weighed 146 pounds and Diego weighed 162 pounds, and the distance separating us was fractionally nothing, then the gravitational force between our noncelestial bodies was approximately equal to three times the force a seat belt applies to a restrained passenger in a vehicle traveling at sixty-three miles per hour when it collides with a stationary object.”
(d) “An object must travel at approximately 11.2 kilometers per second to break free of Earth’s gravity.”

5. With which of the following does "Midnight Sun" begin?
(a) “When scientists at NASA first observe the sun dimming, a small division is funded to study the phenomenon.”
(b) “Audrey and I braved the mall two days before Christmas.”
(c) “The first time I visited Nana at the nursing home I expected to find her alone in a dreary room.”
(d) “From Earth, Venus is a beacon in the night sky, beautiful and bright.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following had Nana told Audrey to call her?

2. With which of the following does "31 December 2015" begin?

3. With which of the following does "Bees?" begin?

4. What snack does Audrey’s mother provide for Audrey and Henry?

5. To which of the following constellations does Henry compare himself?

Short Essay Questions

1. What effect does the use of Mind’s Eye have on society?

2. What happens after the last hive of honeybees dies?

3. How does Nana describe her experience with Kenny Highcastle?

4. Audrey asks Henry why “people who so obviously hate children have so many of them” (319). What is Henry’s response?

5. Why does Marcus reportedly think Zac vandalized his car?

6. What injuries does Diego suffer after his sister falls from a cottonwood tree?

7. What reason does Henry posit for mothers thinking their sons handsome?

8. What reasons does Henry give for saying he means to attend Brown University?

9. What opportunities to out Marcus does Henry note having had?

10. How does Henry’s mother note having secured her new job?

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