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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 does Zinkoff do after he throws up in Mrs. Biswell's class?
(a) Cleans up his mess.
(b) Goes to the nurse's office.
(c) Passes out.
(d) Runs home.

2. What is Zinkoff most afraid of?
(a) Blood.
(b) The furnace.
(c) Making people sad.
(d) The dark.

3. What does Mr. Yalowitz see in Zinkoff?
(a) His disadvantages.
(b) His love.
(c) His potential.
(d) His needs.

4. What is Andrew's father's occupation?
(a) Mechanic.
(b) Banker.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Mailman.

5. Why do students whisper the word Jabip to him after the first incident?
(a) To see him happy.
(b) To annoy the teacher.
(c) To see him cry.
(d) To make him laugh.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Zinkoff's stomach fixed?

2. What does Zinkoff get from his mother after his first day at school?

3. How does Zinkoff's mother watch him as he goes to school on his first day?

4. What makes the children giggle at Zinkoff on his first day at school?

5. What does Zinkoff do when he is ready to go to school?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Zinkoff react to his first soccer game?

2. How is Mr. Yalowitz different from all the other teachers Zinkoff has had?

3. What is unusual about Zinkoff's first time leaving his home alone?

4. What special gift does Zinkoff make for Andrew?

5. What does Zinkoff think his mother's star stickers are?

6. What does Mrs. Zinkoff call her husband's car, and why?

7. What happens when a bully tries to take Zinkoff's hat on the playground?

8. What does Andrew's father think of the neighborhood, and why?

9. What does the narrator say happens when boys get together?

10. What makes Zinkoff feel like the Waiting Man?

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