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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who molested Goolrick?
(a) His uncle.
(b) His grandfather.
(c) His brother.
(d) His father.

2. What does Goolrick begin to obsess about?
(a) His friends.
(b) His finances.
(c) His mental state.
(d) His health.

3. What happened to Grandmother's Canton plates?
(a) Sister broke them as a child.
(b) Father broke them as a child.
(c) Brother broke them as a child.
(d) Mother broke them as a child.

4. Why is George Hazelwood the leader of the gang?
(a) He is powerful.
(b) He is fat.
(c) He is intelligent.
(d) He is rich.

5. What did the students have to bring on Butter Day?
(a) Milk.
(b) Cream.
(c) Butter,
(d) Sugar.

6. How does Goolrick get home that day?
(a) He takes the bus.
(b) He rides his bike.
(c) He calls his mother.
(d) He walks.

7. What did brother want mother to say before he ate his dinner?
(a) "Eat your lunch cowboy."
(b) "Chief say eat."
(c) "God commands you to eat."
(d) "Howdy stranger."

8. How long has Goolrick lived alone?
(a) Sixty years.
(b) Five years.
(c) Never.
(d) Twenty five years.

9. What did Goolrick's father do in one of the pageants?
(a) He was a soldier.
(b) He was the flag.
(c) He was a president.
(d) He was Martha Washington.

10. What does George pull out from his pocket?
(a) A switchblade.
(b) Gum.
(c) A gun.
(d) Tobacco.

11. What was Goolrick the first May Day play?
(a) A robin.
(b) A hawk.
(c) An oriole.
(d) A bluebird.

12. What did Elizabeth Taylor say about her eyes?
(a) They were just gray.
(b) They were lavender.
(c) They were just green.
(d) They were black.

13. What are the Goolrick children not allowed to say, much less eat?
(a) Roast.
(b) Pie.
(c) Dip.
(d) Coconut.

14. Whom does Goolrick wonder about, in terms of how she went on making herself breakfast, even after she knew what happened?
(a) His aunt.
(b) His mother.
(c) His grandmother.
(d) His sister.

15. What did Goolrick do at age thirteen for a local paper?
(a) An interview.
(b) A news story.
(c) A book review.
(d) A photograph.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Goolrick was hospitalized, what did his aunt think caused his breakdown?

2. What did the children eat with the newly made butter?

3. What costume did Goolrick and his brother love as children?

4. Whom does Goolrick tell the following morning?

5. Who watches him do this to the girl next door?

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