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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. What kind of women does Dave currently like to date?
(a) Older women
(b) Working women
(c) Women who want only fun
(d) Women who want relationships

2. Who carries Dave and Beth's mother to the car?
(a) Dave's father
(b) Toph
(c) Dave
(d) Beth

3. What usually prompts Dave and Toph to tidy the house?
(a) When Dave has a date
(b) A visit form Beth
(c) When they run out of clean plates
(d) The smell

4. What does Dave imagine the baby sitter doing to Toph?
(a) Selling him
(b) Abusing him
(c) Kidnapping him
(d) Murdering him

5. What do Dave and his sibling live off?
(a) Welfare
(b) Bank loans
(c) Kirsten's money
(d) Life insurance

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of people are in the car Dave has to identify?

2. What part of California do Dave's friends live in?

3. What does Dave want to join?

4. What does Dave do before the girl can tell the story to anyone else?

5. Where is Dave's family home?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Dave not date many women?

2. Why does Dave think it is important to go to the gym?

3. Describe Dave's father's funeral.

4. What is wrong with Dave's mother at the beginning of Chapter 1?

5. Why does Dave call a nurse rather than take his mother to the hospital?

6. Summarize Chapter 3.

7. What is Dave and Beth's plan?

8. How does a group of Mexican children harass Dave and Meredith in Chapter 5?

9. Why does Dave struggle to discard of some of his parent possessions?

10. How does Dave help his mother in the first chapter?

(see the answer keys)

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