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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 is Howie's first footnote in Chapter 7 about?
(a) Cars.
(b) Watches.
(c) Polaroids.
(d) Shirts.

2. What has Howie taken to be repaired by blind people for L?
(a) Watch.
(b) Shoes.
(c) Vase.
(d) Chairs.

3. What coincidence about ___does Tina relate to Howie?
(a) Trash cans.
(b) Phones.
(c) Cars.
(d) Smoke detectors.

4. Who else rode the escalator with Howie and his mom?
(a) Sister.
(b) Dad.
(c) Uncle.
(d) Cousin.

5. Howie considers 1971 to be the end of ___________.
(a) House calls.
(b) Innocence.
(c) Childhood.
(d) Milk delivery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Howie give a historical footnote to in Chapter 6?

2. What purchase does Howie always need a bag for?

3. Howie describes all the following transport systems EXCEPT one:

4. At what age does Howie start to worry about dying brain cells?

5. What does Howie describe in great detail in the first paragraph of the book?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the treat that Howie gives himself after making a resolution to not get carried away by nostalgia?

2. How does Howie celebrate what he considers to be the realization that he is an adult?

3. Why has Howie mostly given up drinking milk?

4. How does Howie describe the experience of opening a package of shirts from the dry cleaners?

5. Why does Howie purchase a milk carton at Papa Gino's?

6. What compelling realization does Howie remember when driving behind a garbage truck when he is thirty?

7. What is Howie's focus in Chapter 3?

8. What is Howie's reaction to his shoelace breaking at work?

9. Where is Howie when he believes that his great period of growth as a human has ended?

10. What were the "systems of local transport" that Howie liked as a child?

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