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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 Dickie do when he sees Richard in his thoughts?
(a) Faints.
(b) Screams.
(c) Shoots him.
(d) Slaps him.

2. What does Dickie think that Richard is going to do with him in Chapter 12?
(a) Take away his video games.
(b) Send him to live with someone else.
(c) Lock him in the room again.
(d) Spank him.

3. What does Richard see from the air that the adult brain says it could not reasonably survive?
(a) Bear.
(b) Geese.
(c) Coyote.
(d) Deer.

4. Richard recalls meeting a woman who could _________________________.
(a) make a souffle.
(b) make him cry.
(c) tell great jokes.
(d) read his mind.

5. Shepherd asks Richard to sign a book for whom?
(a) Ray.
(b) His son.
(c) Dickie.
(d) His wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What large item does Richard ask Dickie to recall?

2. What does Richard think about as he jumps off the mountain to paraglide?

3. Leslie points out that Richard probably has a lot in common with ______________.

4. Richard encourages Dickie to defy convention and __________________.

5. What is the name of Richard's airplane?

Short Essay Questions

1. What philosophy about numbers does Richard share with Dickie?

2. Describe what Richard sees when Leslie encourages him to remember when he was nine, right after his brother's death.

3. What does Richard tell Dickie are the two things necessary to get through life?

4. What story does Richard tell Dickie about his friends, Mike and Jack, that lets Richard know that he and Dickie are a good team?

5. What is Richard's memory of the water tower?

6. What does Richard have to promise Dickie in order for Dickie to turn over another memory?

7. Describe Dickie's sense of accomplishment in the water tower incident.

8. When Leslie prods him, what memories does Richard recall that might be the source of Dickie's anger?

9. What is the landscape in which Richard finds Dickie in his mind and what does it symbolize?

10. Who is Sheperd and how does Richard encounter him?

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