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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mrs. Bruning feel about Debbie's action in question #101?
(a) Angry.
(b) Indifferent.
(c) Pleased.
(d) Sad.

2. What does Hector's mother make for which some people might want the recipe?
(a) Green pea soup.
(b) Sugar cookies.
(c) Jell-o salad.
(d) Pizza.

3. What does Debbie have for a bedroom door?
(a) Beads.
(b) A bamboo room divider.
(c) A regular door.
(d) A curtain.

4. What might disintegrate Patty's world?
(a) All the moving atoms to suddenly move differently.
(b) Her science teacher retiring before Patty's senior year.
(c) Her parents divorcing.
(d) Her grandmother dying.

5. About what is the song Hector composes at the celebration?
(a) Hitting the cold water of the lake on a hot day.
(b) The smell of fireworks.
(c) Pulling petals from daisies.
(d) Girls being from Venus.

6. What does Debbie see Lenny doing in his backyard?
(a) Mowing the lawn.
(b) Raking leaves.
(c) Working on his bike.
(d) Swimming in the pool.

7. What is Lenny doing with his father in Chapter 16:
(a) Repairing a car engine.
(b) Painting the house.
(c) Cutting down a tree.
(d) Moving a washing machine.

8. What does Mrs. Bruning ask Debbie to do?
(a) Walk her dog.
(b) Pick up a presciption from the drug store.
(c) Cut off her waist long hair.
(d) Wash the outside of all her windows.

9. For what will the person in question #92 use what fell out of Russell's pocket?
(a) To give to Lenny.
(b) To tease Debbie.
(c) To blackmail Russell.
(d) To sell to a pawn shop.

10. Where do Debbie and Peter take Mrs. Gruning?
(a) To the doctor's office.
(b) To the local firehouse.
(c) To Debbie's house.
(d) To the hospital.

11. What part of the festival will Debbie be able to attend even with her job?
(a) The dinner and fireworks.
(b) The lighting of the soltice candles.
(c) The annual jump into the lake summer first swim.
(d) The Maypole Dance.

12. With what is Patty struggling?
(a) The marching band.
(b) Whether to apply to the local college or ones farther away from home.
(c) The laws of physics.
(d) A crush she has on a boy at school.

13. Why can't Debbie and Peter call for help with Mrs. Bruning?
(a) The phone lines are down.
(b) Mrs. Bruning forgot to pay her phone bill.
(c) Mrs. Bruning does not have a phone.
(d) There is an electrical storm.

14. Who picks up what falls out of Russell's pocket?
(a) Hector.
(b) Patty.
(c) Russell.
(d) Dan.

15. Where do Peter and his parents live?
(a) New York.
(b) California.
(c) Nebraska.
(d) Florida.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is interested in the theory of relativity?

2. What did Peter see that he thought was strange outside his bedroom window upon waking at his grandmother's house?

3. What are Debbie and Patty doing as they look at the yearbook?

4. What does Peter Bruning call his grandmother?

5. With what is Hector occupied as of late?

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