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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sam plan to do with her car to make it look mean?
(a) Take the door handles off.
(b) Paint it black.
(c) Put gold rims on it.
(d) Cut a hole in the roof.

2. What is Tom's garage called?
(a) Tom's Garage.
(b) Cars R Us.
(c) The Incubator.
(d) Kustom Kollision.

3. Emmett's ability to become absorbed in thought over mundane things makes him good at what?
(a) Digging trenches.
(b) Pac-Man.
(c) Sweeping floors.
(d) Watching television.

4. What does Tom hand Sam to drink?
(a) Some orange juice.
(b) A Coke.
(c) A whisky.
(d) A glass of water.

5. What does Anita say about the Vietnam War in general, agreeing with what Sam says her mother thinks about the war?
(a) It was the Golden Age.
(b) It was the Dark Ages.
(c) It should be remembered.
(d) It should be forgotten.

6. What aspect of Sam's house seems like some repressed life that wanted to emerge?
(a) The food in the refrigerator.
(b) The junk in the basement.
(c) The layers of gaudy wallpaper.
(d) The dirt in the carpet.

7. What is the shape of Lonnie's birthmark?
(a) A sun.
(b) A sickle.
(c) An alligator.
(d) A German shepherd.

8. Whose death was more real to Sam than the death of her father when she was a child?
(a) Colonel Blake's.
(b) John Lennon's.
(c) Kennedy's.
(d) Martin Luther King's.

9. Where has Sam left his ring?
(a) In her sock drawer.
(b) Under her bed.
(c) On the window sill.
(d) At Dawn's house.

10. At which restaurant do Mawmaw, Sam, and Emmett eat?
(a) Howard Johnson's.
(b) Stucky's.
(c) Cracker Barrel.
(d) McDonald's.

11. What book of Anita's does Sam set her sweaty glass on?
(a) The Bible.
(b) "I'm Ok, You're Ok", by Thomas Harris.
(c) "Life is a Bowl of Cherries...", by Erma Bombeck.
(d) "Out on a Limb", by Shirley MacLaine.

12. What is Dawn examining nonchalantly as Sam buys the item for her at the drugstore?
(a) Some purple earrings.
(b) A giant bottle of vitamin C.
(c) A bag of Doritos.
(d) A Cabbage Patch doll.

13. When is Lonnie's brother getting married?
(a) Memorial Day.
(b) Labor Day.
(c) Valentine's Day.
(d) Christmas.

14. Where does Tom say the bird that Emmett is looking for resided in Vietnam?
(a) Along rice paddies.
(b) Near mountain passes.
(c) In palm trees.
(d) On the beach.

15. What does the doctor do when Emmett mentions Agent Orange as a possibility for his skin problems?
(a) He writes something down.
(b) He laughs.
(c) He acts as if he didn't say anything.
(d) He becomes very serious.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sam think beer smells like when Lonnie kisses her and it is on his breath? Sulpher

2. Where does Dawn want to "play"?

3. Why didn't Lonnie get a basketball scholarship to Murray?

4. What does Dawn say she is sick of in the context of not wanting to have a baby?

5. What do skin disease do grown-ups get that is a version of an adolescent skin disease?

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