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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. With which of the following characters is Big Henry having an affair?
(a) Edna
(b) Lila
(c) Susan
(d) Red
2. What grade is Henry in when David moves away?
(a) 3rd
(b) 5th
(c) 8th
(d) 6th
3. What was the man who gave them a ride arrested for?
(a) Kidnapping a child
(b) Stealing a car
(c) Killing his wife
(d) Performing oral sex on another man
4. Why does David's mother berate him when he arrives home from school when Henry walks him home?
(a) He has a bloody nose
(b) He stole potato chips from her
(c) He brought a friend home from school
(d) His shirt is torn
5. What does Henry's father do for a living?
(a) Nothing, he is unemployed
(b) Runs a dairy farm
(c) Has a milk route
(d) Delivers newspapers
6. What does Henry do which makes Chuck, Eddie, Frank and Gene upset with him for a few weeks?
(a) Kicked the dog
(b) Kicks the spider web
(c) Refuses to go to church
(d) Steals their football
7. Why does Henry decide he can't run away?
(a) His mother would miss him
(b) His father needs him
(c) He won't be able to find a job
(d) He couldn't live on his own
8. What happens to Henry in confession?
(a) He eavesdrops on Frank's confession
(b) He is banned from the church
(c) He can't think of anything so he makes sins up
(d) He refuses to say anything
9. What did Henry find odd about his grammar school teacher?
(a) She had two different colored eyes.
(b) She couldn't speak English.
(c) She only spoke to the girls in the class.
(d) She never went to the bathroom.
10. What punishment does Henry get from his father when he brings home the note from the principal?
(a) Whipping with a belt
(b) Whipping with a branch
(c) Beating with a wooden spoon
(d) Beating with a razor strop
11. Where does Henry begin going with Frank?
(a) Baseball practice
(b) Church
(c) School
(d) Pool
12. What sport does Henry imagine that he is great at playing?
(a) Basketball
(b) Baseball
(c) Football
(d) Soccer
13. Why does the principal send a note home to Henry's parents?
(a) Because Henry wants to play on the regular baseball team
(b) Because he witnessed David being beaten
(c) Because he gets into a fight with Billy Sherril
(d) Because he never uses the bathroom in school
14. What does Henry say gives him the courage to fight harder when the bigger boys try to take the football away from him and Red?
(a) Desire to get the football back
(b) Red's courage facing bigger kids
(c) Their howls of pain
(d) Henry's father watching
15. Why did Henry's family come to America?
(a) It is not explained.
(b) To avoid prison for his father.
(c) To escape debts in Germany.
(d) To live near his relatives who had already moved to America.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Henry's mother's reaction to the note from the principal?
2. Why does the doctor say that Big Henry should not blame Henry for the car accident?
3. What does Henry do when he hears his father beating his mother after the confrontation?
4. What chore does Henry's father give him to keep him out of one of the Saturday football games?
5. Which of the following characters is cross-eyed?
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