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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Luster offer to sell the golfer?
(a) A brownie
(b) A golf ball
(c) Benjy
(d) A golf club

2. Who is credited with looking after the children?
(a) Caddy
(b) Caroline
(c) Benjy
(d) Dilsey

3. Where does Quentin say Benjy should be sent?
(a) The work house
(b) The asylum
(c) A circus
(d) Jail

4. How is Luster related to Dilsey?
(a) He is her nephew.
(b) He is her grandson.
(c) He is her cousin.
(d) He is her brother.

5. Why does the store owner employ Jason?
(a) He is good company.
(b) He feels sorry for his mother.
(c) He brings in extra business.
(d) He loves his niece.

6. What is inside Benjy's bottle?
(a) A spider
(b) Sand
(c) Two flowers
(d) A frog

7. How does Benjy sense that something has changed about Caddy?
(a) She has stopped smelling of trees.
(b) She spends all her time in the bathroom.
(c) She shouts at him.
(d) She stops coming home from school.

8. What does Luster find in the water?
(a) A golf ball
(b) A golf club
(c) A dead fish
(d) A human hand

9. What was Benjamin's original name?
(a) Maury
(b) Lucifer
(c) Quentin
(d) Jason

10. What is the name of the family's mother?
(a) Georgie
(b) Lynn
(c) Helena
(d) Caroline

11. What has Luster lost at the beginning of the first chapter?
(a) His pants
(b) His watch
(c) His shoe
(d) A quarter

12. What does Benji spend most of his time watching?
(a) The golf course
(b) The washing machine
(c) School girls
(d) Television

13. What does Luster say to torment Benjy?
(a) Caddy
(b) Idiot
(c) Kissy kissy
(d) Simple Simon

14. For what reason does Quentin get into fights?
(a) To prove his masculinity
(b) To feel passion
(c) To defend his sister's honor
(d) To learn boxing

15. How much money does Uncle Maury want from his sister?
(a) $25
(b) $500
(c) $100
(d) $50

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is sitting in the swing in present time?

2. Who does Benjy take letters to?

3. Why does Dilsey place a piece of wood between Luster and Benjy at night?

4. Why does Caroline change Benjamin's name?

5. What does Maury do for a living?

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