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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is there a party for Shlink at headquarters?
(a) It is his birthday.
(b) He is moving away.
(c) He is going to be a father.
(d) He is going into the army.

2. How does Jim play on a league out of his age range?
(a) Jim's birthday is close enought to the cut-off date.
(b) His position on the team is based on his skills.
(c) Jim does not know his real age.
(d) The coach gives him a fake birth certificate.

3. What do Jim and his friends use to attack girls on the eve of Halloween?
(a) Tomatoes.
(b) Socks with flour.
(c) Balloons.
(d) Baseball bats.

4. How old is Jim, when the story begins?
(a) 11.
(b) 13.
(c) 12.
(d) 14.

5. What does Jim check the almanac for when he gets home from school?
(a) Strange weather patterns over New York City.
(b) Any record of fits tossed in one class of thirty people in one half a school day.
(c) When the next full moon will be.
(d) A horoscope that might indicate how his basketball season will go.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jim take his blind date, Melody?

2. Why does Jim punch Larry out in the school trophy room?

3. Why does a chorus of people laugh at Jim on a previous train ride?

4. Who applauds for Jim after he jumps into the Harlem River?

5. At the end of the spring 1965, who approaches Jim in a Bronx neighborhood?

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