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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the man who gave them a ride arrested for?
(a) Kidnapping a child
(b) Killing his wife
(c) Stealing a car
(d) Performing oral sex on another man

2. What does Edna do when Big Henry refuses to choose?
(a) Attacks Big Henry's wife and then leaves
(b) Takes Big Henry's car and leaves
(c) Beats on Big Henry and the leaves
(d) Beats on Henry and then leaves

3. When is Henry first exposed to other children?
(a) Kindergarten
(b) As a toddler playing with the neighbor children
(c) Preschool
(d) When his mother starts babysitting

4. How does Henry's father describe his brothers?
(a) Religious zealots
(b) Do gooders
(c) Crazy
(d) Alcoholics

5. What does Henry's mother give to Anna and her family?
(a) Blankets
(b) Food
(c) Money
(d) Peanut butter

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Henry's mother's reaction to the note from the principal?

2. What did Henry's grandfather give to him?

3. What happens after Big Henry is confronted by his wife and Edna in his own house?

4. What do Frank and Henry sell to the Jewish ladies who sit on the benches at the beach?

5. What happens within the baseball game with Miranda Bell after several innings with no score?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Henry begin to be included with the neighborhood boys?

2. What happens when Henry's father drives to an orange grove to pick oranges?

3. What does Henry's father overreact to after Henry completes the assigned lawn chores and what punishment does he give to Henry?

4. What is a common theme among many of the children and adults by this point in the novel?

5. What does Henry witness when he walks David home and then waits for him outside?

6. Why do Henry and Frank make a break and run away from the man who picked them up and drove them to the air show?

7. What does Henry talk about in relation to the boys at his grammar school?

8. What sins does Henry make up when he can't think of anything he's done wrong during confession?

9. What happens at the pool that causes Red to move away from Henry without a word of goodbye?

10. Describe, in detail, an example of Big Henry's tendency to create scenes in public.

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