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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 age does Fulghum claim he was before he knew that people even cleaned gutters and downspouts?
(a) Twenty-five.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Forty-five.
(d) Forty.

2. What does Fulghum say his barber did on his days off?
(a) He gave free haircuts to children in an orphanage.
(b) He gave free haircuts to old men in a nursing home.
(c) He gave free haircuts to his clients' children.
(d) He gave free haircuts to people in his church group.

3. In Chapter 36, what is the profession of the man who has the car with the dead battery?
(a) Science teacher.
(b) P.E. teacher.
(c) English teacher.
(d) Math teacher.

4. What does Franklin retort to the bystander who asked what good the balloon was?
(a) "What good is a bunch of hot air?"
(b) "What good is a newborn baby?"
(c) "What good is a new invention?"
(d) "What good is imagination?"

5. In Chapter 31, Fulghum claims that Beethoven defied his fate with what?
(a) Jubilation.
(b) Joy.
(c) Magnificence.
(d) Music.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony does Fulghum want to play?

2. Fulghum says that he and his Aunt Violet got along just fine until the night of what?

3. What was the total population of the earth during the time of Julius Caesar?

4. What did the man in Chapter 16 claim was the biggest irony of all during his theory testing?

5. The man who has a car with a dead battery says he took another class the same time as his auto mechanics class. What class does he say he took at the same time as his mechanics class?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 27, what does the man with scrooge-itis say about receiving gifts?

2. Describe Fulghum's ride home in an ancient pickup truck in Chapter 17.

3. In Chapter 28, why does Robert Fulghum buy a cuckoo clock?

4. Who is Donnie in Chapter 30, and why does he knock on Fulghum's door?

5. Describe Larry Walters' contraption that Fulghum mentions in Chapter 38 and what he has with him as he floats over Los Angeles.

6. In Chapter 40, what happens when V.P. Menon arrives in Delhi to seek a job in government?

7. In Chapter 36, what are some of the deadly mixtures that Fulghum and his newfound stranded friend discuss?

8. What kind of fantasy does Fulghum speak about in Chapter 20, and what does it involve?

9. In Chapter 20, what kind of people does Fulghum say he lives in awe of?

10. Why does Fulghum tell the reader in Chapter 16 to not be mislead by the stories we hear of crookedness and corruption?

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