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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 does the narrator say that his family puts on their typical meals of meatloaf, red cabbage, and mashed potatoes?
(a) Tons of salt.
(b) An overabundance of pepper.
(c) Buckets of tabasco sauce.
(d) Gallons of ketchup.

2. When his friends ask the narrator who he plans to invite to the big dance, what does he say?
(a) Penelope Sanders.
(b) Josephine Cosnowski.
(c) Wanda Hickey.
(d) Daphne Bigelow.

3. Who answers the door when the narrator goes to Daphne's house?
(a) Her father.
(b) The butler.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Daphne.

4. What does the narrator start to worry about at the party with Josie?
(a) That he'll have to get married and drop out of high school.
(b) That his friends will make fun of him next time they see him.
(c) That Josie is far too pretty for a regular guy like him.
(d) That her parents will never like him.

5. When the narrator goes to Pulaski's grocery store on an errand for Mother, he talks to Howie, who used to do what?
(a) Sing with the high school men's choir.
(b) March with the band.
(c) Play high school football.
(d) Play on his softball team.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where do we find the narrator at the beginning of Story 7?

3. When the doorman retrieves a childhood toy for the adult narrator, who does he have to fight for it?

4. What is the name of the family that moves next door to the Shepherds long after the Bumpuses move out?

5. At the end of Story 7, what does the narrator do with his box of childhood memories?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the adult narrator's fire chief hat?

2. What does the narrator compare the prom to?

3. Where does the narrator live when he is an adult?

4. How does the narrator prepare for his date with Josephine?

5. What is the Wimpy Doll?

6. After the prom, Schwartz and the narrator take their dates to the Rooster. What happens there?

7. How does the narrator's date with Josephine end?

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

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

10. What conflict exists for the narrator regarding the night of the party that he's invited to by Josephine?

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