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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of news does Betsy relay to John and his mother?
(a) Of the birth of a child.
(b) Of a child's illness.
(c) Of a child's success in school.
(d) Of the death of a child.

2. How did John's driving lessons end?
(a) At his grandmother's house.
(b) At his parents' house.
(c) In a ditch.
(d) Safely back home.

3. Who is Chuckie?
(a) John Robison's best friend.
(b) A girl John Robison liked.
(c) A boy John Robison liked.
(d) John Robison's teacher.

4. What story did John have to recant?
(a) That he was raising a baby he found in a dumpster.
(b) That he kept a rabid raccoon as a pet.
(c) That he had seen feral children in his rounds as a garbage man.
(d) That he was going to Harvard.

5. How did John's father injure John's brother Chris?
(a) He put a cigarette out on his forehead.
(b) He beat him.
(c) He slammed his fingers in a door.
(d) He left him alone for hours.

6. Where did John get a job?
(a) A restaurant.
(b) A garbage collector.
(c) Harvard.
(d) A sound company.

7. What had Jim Boughton made from scratch?
(a) A blast furnace.
(b) A car.
(c) A robot.
(d) A smithy.

8. How did John get revenge against his biology teacher?
(a) By spreading rumors about the teacher.
(b) By writing dirty things about the teacher in the bathroom.
(c) By having porn magazines sent to the teacher's house.
(d) By disrupting the teacher's class.

9. Who took care of John and Chris when their mother was hospitalized?
(a) Their friends.
(b) Their grandparents.
(c) Family friends and neighbors.
(d) Their aunt.

10. How did John Robison feel when he was around other kids?
(a) Aggressive.
(b) Outlandish.
(c) Superior.
(d) Inferior.

11. How long did John take to finish the year-long electronics course he was enrolled in?
(a) Two years.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) Six weeks.
(d) A semester.

12. What does John say became more difficult as her got older?
(a) Controlling his troublemaking urges.
(b) Making sense of adults' contradictory expectations.
(c) Understanding the language of the children around him.
(d) Refraining from blurting out his thoughts.

13. What does John say his mother told him about his father?
(a) She says that he was a spy.
(b) She said that he was going to kill them all.
(c) She says that he was really someone else.
(d) She says that he had cancer.

14. What was John being paid to do?
(a) Maintain sound equipment.
(b) Provide drugs for the band.
(c) Light carpentry and chores.
(d) Play guitar and sing.

15. What would John Robison do to Doug?
(a) Hit him on the ears.
(b) Ignore him.
(c) Make fun of him.
(d) Refuse to respond to him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was John's first Porsche?

2. What didn't John like about the Caribbean?

3. How does John say he kept himself popular?

4. How does John describe Mary?

5. Where did John's family move after his father got tenure?

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