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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. ___________ is the one who is clearly in command of the history of Thomas' treatment, according to the story.
(a) Patel.
(b) Dominick.
(c) Ray.
(d) Thomas.

2. Ralph is actually discriminated against in school because he is ____________, which is part of the reason he speaks up in class too.
(a) A slave.
(b) Crippled.
(c) Colored.
(d) Blind.

3. Ma accepts her diagnosis as one which is ____________, even if it means that she will die a painful death.
(a) Unfair.
(b) God's will.
(c) A relief.
(d) Needed.

4. While Ma does not care for the ____________, the boys do not particularly like Francis the Talking Mule.
(a) Singing.
(b) Three Stooges.
(c) Army fights.
(d) Dancing ladies.

5. Nedra Frank is the ____________ who does not return the memoir when she is hired to translate it.
(a) Nun.
(b) Literature professor.
(c) Family friend.
(d) Graduate student.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dominick believes that __________ is a bully, but that he is not inhuman as the tapes seem to make him.

2. Who does Dominick lie to about Penny Drinkwater on the day that she disappears and is eventually found murdered?

3. Leo insists that being a ____________ major makes him an expert on homosexuality, though he has never been tempted.

4. Billy Covington is the man who dies in Vietnam, a man who idolized _____________, though the reader doesn't learn much more.

5. What is the subject that Dominick teaches when he is a teacher as his profession?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dominick grow impatient with when he is talking with his brother a day before the amputation?

2. What happens which makes Dominick feel moved during his conversation and his visit with Leo?

3. Why does Dell decide to lower the price of the used car that he is trying to sell to Leo, in this story?

4. What are the therapy techniques which Dominick objects to, as they are causing one person in his life to be at blame?

5. What does Ma do when the television explodes, according to Dominick's memory from 1958?

6. Why do Ray and Ma fight over sending Dominick and Thomas to college during the time of the Vietnam War?

7. What does seeing young dance students trigger in Dominick when he goes to see Patel and Sheffer?

8. What are the guidelines for Dominick being able to visit Thomas when he is at the center?

9. What does Dominick recall lying about in third grade which he now feels guilty about doing?

10. Why is it hard for Dominick to not take care of his brother and watch out for him in this everyday life?

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