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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. About what does Hector compromise with his parents?
(a) Where he will attend high school.
(b) His music lessons.
(c) His hair length.
(d) Wearing an earring.

2. What does Lenny still like to share with anyone who will listen?
(a) How to take apart and put together machinery.
(b) The knowledge he gleaned from encyclopedias.
(c) The songs he writes.
(d) The plots of all the comic books he read.

3. What does Lenny teach Debbie?
(a) To drive a motorcycle.
(b) To parallel park.
(c) To change the engine oil.
(d) To drive a stick shift.

4. How is Rowanne described?
(a) As pretty.
(b) As very intelligent.
(c) As homely.
(d) As average.

5. What does Hector wonder about his music teacher?
(a) Why he teaches chorus but can't sing.
(b) Why he went into the ministry instead of a music career.
(c) Why the teacher works in a music company instead of giving concerts.
(d) If the man ever lived in Haight-Ashbury.

Short Answer Questions

1. What age group are Debbie, Hector, Lenny, Phil and Patty?

2. What has Lenny started doing that disgusts Debbie?

3. What does Hector vow?

4. What is Debbie looking over at the opening of Chapter One?

5. Why is Hector disappointed at music class one day?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Debbie see in her sister's magazine, and what does she think about when she sees it?

2. What does Hector think about as he is putting up screens with his father, and what makes him think in that direction?

3. What does Debbie think about how one should say a wish?

4. What happens as Debbie is saying the final words of her wish?

5. How does Rowanne use Hector being with her with her friends?

6. Why was Lenny's childhood not indicative of the path he appears to be taking?

7. Where does Hector live in relation to Debbie, who is his sister and how does he feel about her?

8. Where does Rowanne take Hector, and what interests him there?

9. What has Hector began to do and what compromise with his parents is involved?

10. How do Debbie and Patty get their pants to look the way they want?

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