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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is the filth fiend in Chapter 1, Ready?
2. What object must separate the bodies of girls and boys while they dance at mixers?
3. What makes Eddie saddened by his task, in Chapter 5, My Sister was a Piano Freak?
4. What was the previous profession of the toughest teacher at Bremmer High?
5. What are the teachers and faculty at Bremmer High School comprised of?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the transformation in Eddie, in Chapter 5, My Sister was a Piano Freak.
2. How does Eddie feel about destroying the piano?
3. What happens, at the end of Chapter 7, to Bippo?
4. How is Eddie and Una's relationship marked with immaturity?
5. Discuss the types of dress that displeases God, according to Chapter 3, Catholic Girls.
6. Discuss what Chapter 4, The Beautiful World of Richard Bobbo describes.
7. How does Eddie begin to see the Catholic Church in Chapter 3, Catholic Girls?
8. Who is Dolores Crosley?
9. What are mixers?
10. Describe who runs the St. Bremmer's Catholic School for boys.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the teaching methodologies of St. Bremmer Catholic School for boys while Eddie was in attendance there. How do these methods affect the student's grades?
Essay Topic 2
Compare and contrast the definition of a "good" student in the 1950s and 1960s to the definition of a "good" student is in present day.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss what mixers symbolize for adolescents and how Chapter 6, Mixers supports Eddie's maturation process.
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