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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do Toby and his mother go to a house belonging to two strange men?
(a) The men invite them to dinner.
(b) Toby needs to use the bathroom.
(c) The men invite them to watch a mock naval battle.
(d) Toby's mother is interested in buying the house.

2. When Dwight drives drunk after visiting Marblemount tavern, Pearl grabs Toby when Dwight takes sharp curves. What does this show about Pearl and Toby's relationship?
(a) Pearl fears her father.
(b) Pearl has feelings for Toby.
(c) Pearl and Toby act as a support system for each other.
(d) Both Pearl and Toby are victims of Dwight's cruelty.

3. Why does the housekeeper's boyfriend show Toby pictures of his friends and corpses?
(a) He hopes they'll keep Toby out of the military.
(b) He wants Toby to like him.
(c) Toby wants to be a Marine when he grows up.
(d) Toby's father was in the military.

4. What is the significance of the particularly cruel woman in the crowd during the game being dressed in curlers and toreador pants?
(a) It shows that the woman has no fashion sense.
(b) It mirrors the falseness of Rosemary's interest in parenting.
(c) It represents the insensible cruelty of society.
(d) It shows the woman is crazy or has been the victim of abuse.

5. What year is the Ford that Skipper works through high school to rebuild?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1949.

6. What is NOT one of the reasons Toby wears his hair slicked back?
(a) Both his friends wear their hair the same way.
(b) His mother doesn't like it.
(c) Toby thinks it makes him look cool.
(d) He can only wash it once a week.

7. Where does the vice principal accuse Toby of vandalizing the bathroom wall?
(a) The bathroom.
(b) The nurse's office.
(c) The main office.
(d) Toby's classroom.

8. Where do Dwight and his family live?
(a) A converted war barrack that housed German prisoners of war.
(b) In a derelict house.
(c) The outskirts of a nice neighborhood.
(d) A few miles away from Skipper and Norma's high school.

9. Why does Skipper decide not to take Toby with him to Mexico?
(a) Dwight said Toby couldn't go.
(b) Skipper will not be going to Mexico.
(c) Skipper doesn't want Toby to come.
(d) There won't be any room for Toby to sleep in the car.

10. Toby is crushed when he realizes that Bobby and Norma were having sex while he played basketball. What does this prompt Toby to fantasize about?
(a) Getting horribly injured in Norma's presence and being nursed back to health by her.
(b) Hitting Norma for betraying him, and then forgiving her.
(c) Beating Bobby up.
(d) Winning a basketball game to get Norma's attention.

11. Why doesn't Rosemary allow Marian to set Toby straight?
(a) Rosemary feels Marian is encroaching on her parenting.
(b) Rosemary doesn't believe Toby is acting poorly.
(c) Rosemary doesn't care what Toby does.
(d) Rosemary says Toby is a good kid, and she doesn't believe in discipline.

12. What do Pearl and Toby NOT do while waiting in the car for Dwight and Rosemary?
(a) Sing the words to American Bandstand.
(b) Tell stories.
(c) Listen to the radio.
(d) Try to drive each other crazy.

13. Toby braces himself "for the next curve" at the end of Chapter 3. Which of the following does this NOT refer to?
(a) The next curveball Dwight throws him.
(b) Literally, the next curve in the road.
(c) The dangerous life curve his mother has put him on.
(d) Toby's opportunity to start a better life.

14. Why does Rosemary continue to make bad choices?
(a) She will not see things for what they are.
(b) She is lazy.
(c) She believes her actions have no consequences.
(d) She has no confidence in herself.

15. What does Toby tell his mother happened to the squirrel he shot?
(a) A friend from school dared him to shoot it.
(b) Toby shot it.
(c) He does not know how the squirrel died.
(d) Roy killed the squirrel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the names of the two boys Toby hangs out with?

2. How does Toby's mother decide where they are moving?

3. Why does Toby say he wants to kill Dwight?

4. Why doesn't Rosemary live with Toby and Dwight?

5. How does Toby view his move to Chinook?

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