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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What means vagueness or obscurity, as of the mind or perception; confused or vague thoughts, feelings, etc.?
(a) Confluence.
(b) Craze.
(c) Haze.
(d) Immutability.

2. On what date was Johnny cleared to go home in Chapter 5?
(a) May 12.
(b) March 12.
(c) September 10.
(d) May 15.

3. What word means to have an effect on; influence; alter?
(a) Corrupt.
(b) Impact.
(c) Interrogate.
(d) Contempt.

4. How does the author describe the weather when Johnny died in "Aftermath"?
(a) Sunny.
(b) Rainy.
(c) Snowing.
(d) Windy.

5. Johnny's letters from 1937 and 1938 in "A Few More of His Letters" showed that the young boy had an avid interest in what?
(a) Politics.
(b) The solar system.
(c) Art and literature.
(d) Music.

6. What provides a theoretical framework for constructing quantum mechanical models of systems classically parametrized by an infinite number of dynamical degrees of freedom?
(a) Quantum field theory.
(b) Electrical physics.
(c) Atomic physics.
(d) Constructive physics.

7. When was Henry DeWolf Smyth born?
(a) 1852.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1898.

8. Where did Johnny's family return after Johnny's graduation in Chapter 5?
(a) Japan.
(b) London.
(c) Connecticut.
(d) New York.

9. In "The Diary", the author explains that Johnny kept a diary at whose suggestion?
(a) Dr. Traeger's.
(b) Dr. Medfield's.
(c) Frances'.
(d) John's.

10. When did Pierre Lecomte du Nouy die?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1883.
(d) 1962.

11. What refers to keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; sharp sorrow; painful regret?
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Grief.
(c) Cataclysm.
(d) Corruption.

12. How old was Johnny when he was learning to do parallel crises and was working on improving his grades in "A Few More of His Letters"?
(a) 16.
(b) 15.
(c) 12.
(d) 11.

13. In 1939, Johnny's letters highlighted his interest in what in "A Few More of His Letters"?
(a) Football.
(b) English literature.
(c) Painting.
(d) Music.

14. In "The Diary", Johnny mentioned that he discussed fears of death with whom?
(a) His brother.
(b) His aunt.
(c) His mother.
(d) His father.

15. What caused Johnny's death?
(a) Brain aneurism.
(b) Heart attack.
(c) Cerebral hemorrhage.
(d) Pneumonia.

Short Answer Questions

1. During his brief life, Johnny had discovered a new way to liquefy what compound?

2. When did John Gunther die?

3. When did Henry DeWolf Smyth die?

4. In one letter to his father in "A Few More of His Letters," Johnny commented on how the physics teacher had told the class that if the students spent how much a night on their subject, they would do all right?

5. What is the third chapter of Part Two titled?

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