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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 are the two names that David calls his mother?
(a) Mom and The Monster.
(b) Mother and The Monster.
(c) Mommy and The Mother.
(d) Mommy and Mom.

2. What is the name of David's social worker?
(a) Ms. Free.
(b) Ms. Smith.
(c) Ms. Gold.
(d) Ms. Silver.

3. What does David's grandmother compare talking about the past to?
(a) Teasing a rabid dog.
(b) Opening Hell.
(c) Opening Pandora's box.
(d) Entering a beehive.

4. Where does David's grandmother think he should visit while in town?
(a) The chapel at the Air Force Academy.
(b) Her church.
(c) Her father's old barber.
(d) Her psychologist.

5. Who goes to the hospital with David to see his father for the first time?
(a) His mother.
(b) Alice.
(c) Russell.
(d) Stan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the book begin?

2. Why is David's grandmother upset with Russell?

3. Instead of going out during time off from the Air Force, what does David do?

4. After riding his motorcycle to his grandmother's, where does David end up sleeping on the night he arrives?

5. David's grandmother is very hard on Stan. Why is David angry about her lack of patience with Stan?

Short Essay Questions

1. David's mother stopped calling David by his name while he was a child. Describe the regression of David's "name."

2. Why does David initially refuse to admit that his father was going to die?

3. Why is David afraid of the nurse reporting the abuse to the authorities?

4. Why is David so upset about his father being in the hospital?

5. Why does David's mother refuse to go see her husband in the hospital?

6. Why is David sweating while on the plane to San Antonio?

7. While looking around his mother's bedroom, what is he surprised to find after seven years?

8. Patsy gives David a lot of trouble about not going out with her in Chapter 6 entitled "Regroup." How does David justify to Patsy not going out and doing anything fun?

9. What advice does David's father have for him as he gets ready to leave for the Air Force?

10. Why is David's grandmother upset with his brother Russell?

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