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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the best grocery store?
(a) The Tire.
(b) The Hub.
(c) The Wheel.
(d) The Rim.

2. What does Mr. Jones say the other caddies do?
(a) Give him bad luck.
(b) Steal his money.
(c) Loose one ball at each hole.
(d) Give him the wrong clubs.

3. In what state does Chapter 1 take place?
(a) Michigan.
(b) Minnesota.
(c) Montana.
(d) New York.

4. How does the main character give himself away while watching the girl interact with her nurse?
(a) He laughs.
(b) He starts shouting.
(c) He trips.
(d) He kicks a rock.

5. Who approaches Dexter while he's on the raft?
(a) Mr. Jones.
(b) Judy Jones.
(c) Dexter's mother.
(d) Mr. Sandwood.

6. How much money did the main character earn caddying each month?
(a) Fifty dollars.
(b) Three hundred dollars.
(c) Thirty dollars.
(d) One hundred dollars.

7. Who does the girl try to attack with a golf club?
(a) Her nurse.
(b) Her father.
(c) The golf teacher.
(d) Dexter.

8. What can Dexter hear when he relaxes on the raft?
(a) An organ.
(b) A guitar.
(c) A piano.
(d) A violin.

9. Within a year of getting into the laundry business, Dexter was catering to the trade that wore what?
(a) Gold watches.
(b) Diamond Earrings.
(c) Knickerbockers.
(d) Gold rings.

10. What did the main character have to restrain himself from doing when the girl argued with her nurse?
(a) Shouting.
(b) Crying.
(c) Laughing.
(d) Intervening.

11. What did Dexter's winter dreams cause him to pass up?
(a) A chance to buy the golf course.
(b) A chance to travel abroad.
(c) Attending a prestigious university.
(d) Business courses at the state university.

12. How old was the little girl in Chapter 1?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Eight-teen.
(c) Eight.
(d) Eleven.

13. What reason does the main character give for quitting?
(a) "I'm going to college."
(b) "I need more money."
(c) "I'm too old."
(d) "I work too hard."

14. What troubled Dexter when he was in college?
(a) Missing his family.
(b) Difficulty studying.
(c) Lack of money.
(d) Coeds.

15. What simile is used to describe how Dexter's heart turned over?
(a) Like the reel of a fishing pole.
(b) Like a top.
(c) Like the fly-wheel of the boat.
(d) Like a spinning golf ball.

Short Answer Questions

1. What caused the fight between the girl and her nurse to be resolved?

2. What does the person who approaches Dexter in the raft want to know?

3. What is the name of the main character?

4. When the corners of Judy's mouth turned down, it was less a smile than an invitation to what?

5. Where does the main character's father's grocery store rank?

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