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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Peter do that makes their day perfect to Debbie?
(a) He kisses Debbie.
(b) He buys her flowers.
(c) He says he is moving to his grandmothers.
(d) He takes her hand.

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

4. What were the two conversation subjects Hector asked Debbie about while sitting on the curb?
(a) Television series and science fiction books.
(b) Teenage crime and how parents should act with their children.
(c) The lack of education in schools and the problems with playing baseball in the rain.
(d) Movies one has not seen and what one dreamed the night before.

5. What does Debbie's great aunt say Debbie's cousin's job is?
(a) Running a bulldozer.
(b) Selling shoes.
(c) Writing books.
(d) Building houses.

6. What impresses Debbie about the student with the locker next to hers?
(a) His ability to fix anything.
(b) His status as a football star.
(c) Her singing voice.
(d) His guitar.

7. How does Mrs. Bruning feel about going into assisted living?
(a) Happy.
(b) Sad.
(c) Enraged.
(d) Indifferent.

8. What does Hector think when he sees the smashed worms?
(a) That he could still use them for fishing.
(b) That he is a crushed worm himself.
(c) That the worms have short, difficult lives.
(d) That he is glad he does not live on the sidewalk.

9. What about the Catholic religion are the friends discussing at the beginning of Chapter 21?
(a) The Pope.
(b) Priests not getting married.
(c) Confessions.
(d) Styles of churches.

10. Who is interested in the theory of relativity?
(a) Patty.
(b) Lenny.
(c) Russell.
(d) Debbie.

11. What word does Debbie think of when she looks at her yearbook picture?
(a) Yuck.
(b) Moth.
(c) Turtle.
(d) Caterpillar.

12. What does Mrs. Bruning see about Peter and Debbie?
(a) They are indifferent to each other.
(b) They are completely and totally in love.
(c) They do not like each other well.
(d) There is an attraction between them.

13. What has Hector forgotten?
(a) Why he picked up all the trash.
(b) Why he began taking guitar lessons.
(c) Why his parents wanted him to go to college.
(d) Why he thought Meadow is attractive.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is wrong with Mrs. Bruning's car?

2. How does Hector think of the people who step on the worms on the sidewalk?

3. What do Debbie and Peter hope for as they are working on Mrs. Bruning's house?

4. What do Peter and Debbie decide to do?

5. Who does Debbie think would want to know Hector's mother's recipe?

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