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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are mixers?
(a) A party for adults.
(b) Something used in the kitchen.
(c) A drink.
(d) Friday night social events held in church basements or school gyms.

2. What is Eddie and Una's relationship marked by?
(a) Emotional connection.
(b) On- and off-again break-ups.
(c) First love.
(d) Desire.

3. Who are the Catholic boys supposed to set a good example for?
(a) The freshmen grils.
(b) The girls.
(c) The grammar school boys.
(d) The publics.

4. What do the upperclassmen at Bremmer High relish?
(a) Putting freshmen in trash cans.
(b) Hazing the younger boys.
(c) Leaving for lunch.
(d) Terrorizing freshman with teacher horror stories.

5. How does Eddie feel about his sister's new activity?
(a) A little jealous.
(b) Ambivalent.
(c) Annoyed.
(d) Excited for her.

6. Who does Bippo argue with and punch out, in Chapter 7, Bippo?
(a) The coach.
(b) Another team's player.
(c) The homecoming queen.
(d) The other team's coach.

7. How does Eddie feel about his task, in Chapter 5, My Sister was a Piano Freak?
(a) Happy.
(b) Tormented.
(c) Ambivalent.
(d) Anxious.

8. What disease does Eddie have at the end of Chapter 1, Ready?
(a) TB.
(b) Mono.
(c) TMJ.
(d) Osgood-Schlotter's Disease.

9. Which student questions the nuns frequently during grammar school?
(a) Eddie.
(b) Felix.
(c) Timmy.
(d) Tom.

10. In what region is Eddie's high school located?
(a) West Memphis.
(b) Westside Chicago.
(c) East Memphis.
(d) Southside Chicago.

11. In Chapter 4, The Beautiful World of Richard Bobbo, where does Bobby receive his final victory?
(a) The gym.
(b) The locker room.
(c) The cafeteria.
(d) The atrium.

12. What does the Catholic Church give to both girls and boys, in Chapter 3, Catholic Girls?
(a) Strict dating guidelines.
(b) Curfews.
(c) Restrictions on behavior.
(d) An allowance.

13. How many programs of study are at Bremmer High?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

14. How does wearing make-up cause God to feel, according to Chapter 3, Catholic Girls?
(a) Discomforted.
(b) Enabled.
(c) Pleased.
(d) Displeased.

15. How is Eddie typified as the illogical teen, in Chapter 6, Mixers?
(a) He and his friends cannot find their way to the mixer.
(b) He meets the girl he is enamored by but forgets to get her name.
(c) He avoids the ugly girl at the dances.
(d) With his on- and off-again relationship.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Eddie transform himself from Chapter 6, Mixers to Chapter 8, Una?

2. During the 1950s and 1960s, what were Catholic school students thoroughly indoctrinated about?

3. What looms large in the religion's section of "don'ts"?

4. When does Eddie witness the horrors of being a teenager?

5. Who does not take physical education at Bremmer High?

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