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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Janine fixated on this number?
(a) It is the yard line where her seat is located
(b) It is the amount of her water bill
(c) It is Walt's true age
(d) It is her house number

2. Who does Miles hire to bus tables?
(a) Tick
(b) Zack Minty
(c) Candace
(d) John Voss

3. Why is Miles a little late in arriving?
(a) He had a flat tire
(b) He went home to shower
(c) He took John Voss home
(d) He went to the ATM

4. What has Miles agreed to paint for St. Catherine's Catholic Church?
(a) The steeple
(b) The altar
(c) The rectory
(d) The statues

5. What animal does Tick paint in her dream painting?
(a) Dog
(b) Snake
(c) Horse
(d) Bear

6. Where had Cindy taken Miles yesterday after the game?
(a) Her apartment
(b) The cemetery
(c) The movies
(d) A coffee shop

7. What does Jimmy think about as he sits in front of the Empire Grill?
(a) Beating Miles to a pulp
(b) Drinking a beer
(c) Getting a new job
(d) Going out with Charlene

8. What does Miles discover from the newspaper photo?
(a) The mill has burned down
(b) C.B. Whiting is the man he knew as Charles Mayne
(c) There are no black people in the photo
(d) The people are all dead now

9. Where do Miles and his mother go on vacation when Miles is nine years old?
(a) Nassau
(b) Nantucket
(c) Martha's Vineyard
(d) Kennebunkport

10. What is the nickname for the rectory at St. Catherine's Church?
(a) The last chance
(b) The refractory
(c) The Rectum
(d) The rectifier

11. From whom did Jimmy's father derive many of his opinions?
(a) Dan Rather
(b) Walter Cronkite
(c) Tom Brokaw
(d) Anderson Cooper

12. What is the logo on the Callahan's napkins?
(a) A letter "C"
(b) A leprechaun
(c) A shamrock
(d) A blarney stone

13. In what type of car does Miles take driving lessons?
(a) Lincoln
(b) VW
(c) Subaru
(d) Ford

14. What is the name of Francine's cat?
(a) Tumbleweed
(b) Rasputin
(c) Tassie
(d) Timmy

15. The idea that Miles should be kicked out of driver's education until he learns to drive is _________________.
(a) a simile
(b) a metaphor
(c) an irony
(d) flashback

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does John Voss say he lives?

2. Who is the unpopular kid that the school principal pushes off on Tick?

3. In what state does the story take place?

4. Where had C.B. Whiting spent several years as an aspiring artist and poet?

5. Miles has a dream that ____________ is hurt and lying under the bleachers.

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