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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through How I Went On.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mother need to stop doing in order to get well?
(a) Using drugs.
(b) Drinking.
(c) Smoking.
(d) Taking aspirin.

2. What disease does Goolrick's mother have?
(a) Fibromyalsia.
(b) Varices.
(c) Ulcerative Colitis.
(d) Lyme Disease.

3. What did the family do with letters to Santa?
(a) Burned them.
(b) Shredded them.
(c) Mailed them.
(d) Took them to school.

4. What did Goolrick fantasize about his parents?
(a) They kidnapped him as a child.
(b) They were not his real parents.
(c) They were aliens.
(d) They would die.

5. What seems surprising to Goolrick about the differences in human beings?
(a) They can be so vastly different.
(b) They can be so similar.
(c) They can be so cruel.
(d) They can be so mundane.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the young man eventually become in life?

2. What excuse did the Goolrick children use to convince their parents to buy them things?

3. What did mother make at the end of month when they were short on money?

4. What did Goolrick's father do in one of the pageants?

5. How did the family give others Christmas presents?

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