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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. Why does Dennis' friend give Dennis a hard time?
(a) Because a girl the friend likes is flirting with Dennis.
(b) Because Dennis is tilting.
(c) Because Dennis is losing for the third time that day.
(d) Because the friend is doing well in their game and Dennis wants to leave.

2. What does Dennis often do after school?
(a) Takes care of his younger siblings.
(b) Stays after for baseball practice.
(c) Runs errands for his father at his father's business.
(d) Stops by the convenience store.

3. What does Dennis demand of his father?
(a) A way to earn some money.
(b) An allowance.
(c) An explanation about his Christmas present.
(d) An explanation about his birthday present.

4. Why does Dennis' father "put his foot down"?
(a) To make Dennis get his homework done.
(b) To make Dennis go inside the restaurant and eat.
(c) To make Dennis apologize to his mother for his tardiness.
(d) To make Dennis show his younger brother how to play the video arcade game.

5. Why does Dennis start dropping hints about what he wants?
(a) His birthday is coming.
(b) His wealthy uncle is visiting.
(c) His grandparents are visiting.
(d) Christmas is coming.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dennis dream from the time after his first video game?

2. What is the topic of one of the notes Dennis' father leaves him?

3. By whom does Takeem say Dennis' brain seems to have been made?

4. What does Dennis want to do after being touched?

5. What does Dennis do as he is moving the joystick on the arcade game even though he has no money?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens as Dennis is walking home from the game-playing party?

2. What astonishes Dennis when he is in the third grade?

3. What does Dennis learn from classmates that excites him and why is he excited?

4. What does Dennis think about concerning how his downfall at the university begins?

5. What does Dennis learn in a meeting with Dr. Rodriguez in Dennis' junior year?

6. How are Dennis' dreams changed from the night after seeing the video game?

7. What happens at the arcade one day when a feather floats down and then at a game-playing party?

8. Why is Dennis on academic probation?

9. What do the angels greet Dennis with the morning after seeing Dr. Rodriguez and what is his response?

10. What is the result of Dennis' seeing his father's face everywhere?

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