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What is the name of Jerry and Bill's dog?
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Lucky. When it is mentioned first, Jerry is listening to Carol Eckert when his younger brother, Bill, comes to him and says "Lucky was hit by a car!" They leave Carol and run to Johnson Highway to find Lucky dead.
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Who did Jerry hit with a stone on his eyebrow while playing war?
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Johnny Seeton. Jerry was actually aiming at his eyebrow, though he must have expected that it wouldn't have hit it, and when he hit him, Johnny screamed while blood ran down his face. He and his parents never spoke to Jerry about the incident.
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What was Jerry's nickname?
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Spit. Jerry did not like his nickname-it was picked by others and not himself. He wished that he had a cooler nickname like Spider.
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What street did Jerry live on from the ages 10 to 16?
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George Street. It was a dead end street. All the kids would come out and play, and sometimes, they went past the dead end going to Stony Creek, Red Hill, or the Spear Fields.
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Which one of these families did NOT live on George Street?
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The Seetons. The Seetons did not officially live on George Street. They lived on Elm Street. Their house was perpendicular to the backyards of the Freilichs, the Spinellis, the Corys, and the Sukoloskis.
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Whose whistle told all the kids to go on home?
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Mrs. Seeton's. It was a two-note whistle, coming from their backyard. She whistles once and then all the kids are on their way home.
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The marriage of Jerry's dad (Louis Anthony Spinelli) and mom (Lorna Mae Bigler) brought together two heritages: ________ from his dad and Pennsylvania Dutch from his mom.
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Italian. On Sundays after church, Jerry and his family would go to his grandparents' house. There, they would celebrate family reunions, Christmas, or just eat with family.
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What was one of the sixteen things that Jerry wished he could do?
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Hit the curveball. One part in the book has a list of sixteen things that Jerry wished he could do. Number one on his list was that he wished he could spit in between his two front teeth.
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Which of the following did Jerry read often?
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Cereal boxes. Jerry read cereal boxes, comic books, and the sports part in the newspapers. Not until much later did he begin to read real novels/books.
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Jerry was a very messy child.
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False. Jerry was extremely neat. In his autobiography, he put it in this way, "For me, staying inside the lines was more than a color-the-picture matter. No green sky or red grass for me."
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What was the name of Jerry's black friend?
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Louis Darden. One time when in a race, Louis was twenty feet away from the finish line when he looked to his left than to his right then slowed down and laughed. Jerry was outraged. Two years later, a guy named Joe Portano shoved Jerry to the ground and kept slamming him until Louis came between them and pushed Joe away. To Jerry, this time, Louis cared and Jerry backed off.
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Who did Jerry say was the closest he ever got to God?
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Garfield Shainline. Garfield Shainline was Jerry's and others' Sunday school teacher. They hardly ever paid attention to him. They did mean things to him. One day, someone told Jerry he was sick and was in the hospital and that he would love to have someone visit him. Jerry thought about it, but he had so many other so-called important things in life other than visiting the sick. Later on, he heard that Garfield had died. Jerry then felt a change, and he knew that when he died, he did not leave a single bitter thought about the boys. Jerry then realized that Garfield was the lesson.
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Who was Jerry's first girlfriend?
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Judy Brooks. Jerry got his first girlfriend at seven years old. One time, a boy named Eddie Carcarey told Jerry to pick Judy up and kiss her. Jerry did it, but barely.
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Who was the cheerleader who made the cheer for Jerry, became his girlfriend, and became prom queen with him?
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Judy Pierson. After she had made the cheer for him, and after they got to know each other, Jerry and Judy became a couple. Judy would always leave all kinds of notes for him, most of them were left because Jerry would be unreasonable or possessive. During prom, they became the king and queen. Later on, they broke up.
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What did Jerry have to do before the "football game" (with the score of 7-6) was actually over?
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Write a poem. Jerry wrote the poem "Goal to Go." The last sentence in this part of the book stated, "At last, for me, the game was over."
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