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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. To the narrator, Daphne Bigelow is what?
(a) Charming, funny, and witty, but accident prone.
(b) The personification of everything ideal in a girl.
(c) The school's biggest braniac.
(d) Snobbish, elitist, and no fun to be around.

2. Why do the narrator and his friends parade in front of their neighbors' house after a new family moves in?
(a) To count how many people live there.
(b) To catch a glimpse of the exotic beauty who is their age.
(c) To see if there are any boys their age in the family.
(d) They hope to be invited in for milk and cookies.

3. When the Spring Dance is announced, who does the narrator decide to invite?
(a) Penelope Sanders.
(b) Daphne Bigelow.
(c) Josie Cosnowski.
(d) Wanda Hickey.

4. One of the adult narrator's prized collections is a set of first edition comics of what cartoon?
(a) Dilbert.
(b) Archie.
(c) Peanuts.
(d) Garfield.

5. In the community, who is Maxwell Bigelow, Daphne's father?
(a) Chief architect.
(b) Vice president of a steel company.
(c) Chairman of the bank.
(d) Town mayor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator start to worry about at the party with Josie?

2. The weekend before prom, what is the narrator's fate?

3. What is the name of the new girl next door whom the narrator is smitten by?

4. On the big day of the prom, who helps the narrator get into his painful formal wear?

5. What does Howie do now, since quitting high school?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator ask Wanda Hickey to the prom?

2. Why doesn't the narrator ask Daphne Bigelow to the prom?

3. How does the narrator feel after looking through his box of childhood treasures?

4. Describe Daphne's and the narrator's date.

5. Describe how the narrator prepares for his date with Daphne.

6. With the Bumpuses long gone, who finally moves in next door to the Shepherds?

7. Describe the narrator's experience as he waits for Josephine to finish getting ready for their date.

8. When the narrator asks Daphne out on a date, and she agrees, what daydreams go through his mind?

9. Describe the narrator's first major encounter with Josephine.

10. How does the narrator get his fire chief hat back?

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