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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 costume did Goolrick and his brother love as children?
(a) Angel costumes.
(b) Cowboy costumes.
(c) Indian costumes.
(d) Jester costumes.

2. What did the young man eventually become in life?
(a) A judge.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) A felon.

3. What did Goolrick do in both his grandmother's houses?
(a) Set the curtains on fire.
(b) Killed the cat.
(c) Stole money from drawers.
(d) Peed on the carpet.

4. Why goes Goolrick call walking by the river "violently sexy" (pg. 135)?
(a) The river was dirty.
(b) The river was wavy.
(c) The river was a flood zone.
(d) Everything by the river was erotic.

5. What did George accuse Goolrick of saying?
(a) Crude comments about his girlfriend.
(b) Mean comments against his sister.
(c) Crude comments against another boy.
(d) Crude comments about his mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the children do with the jars of cream?

2. What did the family do with letters to Santa?

3. What killed Sally Page?

4. What allowed the family to begin going to the beach for three weeks a year?

5. What are the Goolrick children not allowed to say, much less eat?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Goolrick mean when he says he has spent his life looking for the thing that will make him into whom he wants to be?

2. Describe Goolrick's reply to George's threat.

3. Describe what happened when Goolrick's brother refused to eat when they were children.

4. Describe the creek and explain why it is "violently sexy".

5. Explain what happened when Goolrick was a boy, when he was invited to a sleep over at the McClouds.

6. Explain Mrs. Lackman's process for bathroom breaks, and why it doesn't work with the children.

7. Explain the title of this chapter, "Such Charming Hands."

8. What does Goolrick mean by "how did they thrive so long, and then fail" at the end of this chapter?

9. Explain Goolrick's story of his "real" parents.

10. Explain what happens when Goolrick runs into the boys from school.

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