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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Dave's mother treat the other children who come to the house for Cub Scout meetings?
(a) Like kings.
(b) She is impatient with them.
(c) She tolerates them.
(d) She doesn't speak to them.

2. Beginning in Chapter 3, Bad Boy, what does Dave's mother do on the days his father is away at work?
(a) She volunteers at the school.
(b) She volunteers at the hospital.
(c) She goes on shopping sprees all day.
(d) She lies on the couch all day, watching television in her bathrobe.

3. How does Dave manage to steal food from his classmates?
(a) He grabs food right off the lunch tables.
(b) He sneaks into the lockers before lunch.
(c) He grabs the lunch bags of the smaller children.
(d) Before school while his classmates are outside playing.

4. When Dave gets home from school one day in Chapter 3, Bad Boy, what does his mother tell him?
(a) He shamed his family.
(b) He needs to work harder.
(c) She is proud of him.
(d) He is the best in the class.

5. What does Dave's father eventually do when he keeps losing the arguments with his wife?
(a) He packs a bag and goes to work.
(b) He sits and cries.
(c) He hides in the garage.
(d) He goes to bed.

6. What is Dave's mother's name?
(a) Catherine Roberts.
(b) Catherine Roerva.
(c) Catherine Stephens.
(d) Catherine Josephs.

7. In Chapter 2, Good Times, when does Dave's mom hug him, giving him a feeling of warmth and safety?
(a) Watching the sunset on the Russian River.
(b) When she tucks him into bed.
(c) When she listens to his bedtime prayers.
(d) When she wakes him up in the morning.

8. What are most of Dave's parent's arguments about?
(a) Dave.
(b) Money problems.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Dave's brothers.

9. How does Dave do with his school work in Chapter 3, Bad Boy?
(a) He gets more happy faces than everyone else in the class.
(b) He gets bad grades on all his papers.
(c) He never finishes his school work.
(d) He leaves his papers blank.

10. What happens to Dave when he forgets what his mother sent him to do in Chapter 3, Bad Boy?
(a) She slaps him in the face, giving him a bloody nose.
(b) He gets sent to his room.
(c) He is sent to bed without supper.
(d) He gets banned from the house.

11. What is the disgusting punishment Dave's mother invents for him when the family is vacationing at the Russian River in in Chapter 4, The Fight for Food?
(a) She forces him to eat rotten food.
(b) She forces him to clean Russell's diaper with his bare hands.
(c) She forces him to eat worms from the garden.
(d) She pushes a soiled diaper in his face, telling him to eat it.

12. What does Dave's mother explain to her children while their cat is having kittens?
(a) Not to touch the kittens.
(b) The miracle of birth.
(c) To keep away from the mother cat.
(d) How cats mate.

13. What is the new bed assigned to Dave by his mother in Chapter 4, The Fight for Food?
(a) He sleeps under the kitchen table with newspapers for covers.
(b) He sleeps in the garage.
(c) He sleeps in the doghouse in the back yard.
(d) He sleeps in the basement.

14. What is the first thing Dave does when he gets to school in Chapter 1, The Rescue?
(a) He goes to the lunch room for milk.
(b) He goes to his homeroom.
(c) He goes to the auditorium for assembly.
(d) He goes to the school office and is then sent to the nurse.

15. What are Dave and his brothers allowed to do on Christmas Eve in Chapter 2, Good Times?
(a) Wait for Santa until they fall asleep.
(b) Open one present.
(c) Make cookies.
(d) Stay up late.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Dave's mother's reaction when she receives a call from the principal about Dave's condition in in Chapter 4, The Fight for Food?

2. What kind of pets does Dave's family have Chapter 2, Good Times?

3. What does Dave fantasize about as he lies in bed at night in Chapter 4, The Fight for Food?

4. Who does Dave compare his family to before the abuse started?

5. What does Dave say when people at school ask him the cause of his bruises?

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