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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. 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) Both Pearl and Toby are victims of Dwight's cruelty.
(b) Pearl and Toby act as a support system for each other.
(c) Pearl has feelings for Toby.
(d) Pearl fears her father.

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

3. What is Toby's favorite after school activity?
(a) Watching television.
(b) Writing letters to his penpal.
(c) Reading comic books.
(d) Pretending to shoot people with his rifle from inside the apartment.

4. Where do Toby and his mother settle?
(a) Austin, Texas.
(b) Los Angeles, California.
(c) Seattle, Washington.
(d) Phoenix, Arizona.

5. What color do Toby and Dwight paint the house?
(a) They do not paint the house.
(b) Red.
(c) Black.
(d) White.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dwight blame his poor aim on at the rifle club?

2. Why is Toby afraid to say anything bad about Roy when his mother asks what he thinks about leaving Roy?

3. What does Toby's mother believe she will get a job doing in Utah?

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

5. Which of the following is most symbolic of Toby's life with Dwight?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Toby's attitude toward Dwight?

2. What do Toby and his mother believe about their new life in Utah?

3. How does the Vice Principal find out who vandalized the bathroom wall?

4. Describe what Toby does at the Archery Club.

5. What does Skipper say when Toby asks to come with him to Mexico? Does his answer change later?

6. Describe Rosemary's father.

7. What is the significance of the drink that Judd brings to Toby?

8. What sins does Toby confess before his baptism? Why does he confess these sins?

9. Why do Norma and Bobby Crow take Toby to his basketball games? How does Toby feel about it?

10. What happens at the Thanksgiving turkey shoot?

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