1. | Vincent MacKenna is having a bad day. His bank account is overdrawn and credit line is frozen, he is kicked out of a local bar, and he angers a prostitute by not being able to pay her for her services. His day ends on an even worse note when he passes out on his kitchen floor, as a result of: | ||
his cat attacking him when he runs out of cat food | |||
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slipping on ice and hitting his head on a cabinet door | ||
mixing alcohol with his prescription drugs | |||
autoerotic asphyxiation gone horribly wrong | |||
2. | Vincent meets new neighbor Maggie and her son Oliver when: | ||
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the men from the moving company that Maggie hired hit the tree in Vincent's front yard, causing damage to his car | ||
Vincent's cat escapes his house and hides under Maggie and Oliver's porch | |||
Vincent nearly hits Oliver, who is riding a bike in the street, with his car | |||
Maggie stops by his house with some freshly baked goodies | |||
3. | Oliver is asked to lead the classroom's morning prayer during his first day at Saint Timothy's, his new school. Oliver indicates that this might be a problem, though, as he thinks _________. | ||
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he's Jewish | ||
prayer is for "sissies" | |||
he's afraid of speaking in public | |||
he doesn't know any prayers | |||
4. | Brother Geraghty, the teacher at Oliver's new school, says that there are students of many different religions and beliefs in the classroom, and says that the fastest growing religion in the world seems to be _______. | ||
"who cares?" | |||
"whatever my parents tell me my religion is" | |||
"Scientology" | |||
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"I don't know" | ||
5. | Oliver discovers after gym class that: | ||
a girl in his class was checking him out while he was running | |||
his classmates tricked him, sending him to gym class instead of history class | |||
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someone has stolen his uniform, phone and keys out of his gym locker | ||
the girls in class are making fun of his lack of physical ability behind his back | |||
6. | Oliver spends the afternoon at Vincent's house after: | ||
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asking to come inside and use Vincent's phone, since he's locked out of his house | ||
asking if he could pet Vincent's cat, since he and his mom are not allowed to have pets in the house they are renting | |||
falling asleep inside Vincent's car - he was tired! | |||
asking for Vincent's help in picking the lock to his house | |||
7. | What does Vincent serve to Oliver for dinner? | ||
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sardines | ||
cat food | |||
pickled onions | |||
popsicles | |||
By way of explanation.....
he tells Oliver it's "sushi" |
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8. | Vincent offers his babysitting services - for $11/hr - as a way for Maggie to repay him for the broken fence and ________. | ||
repairs to his front lawn | |||
his car's front fender | |||
damage to his driveway | |||
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the broken tree branch that fell on his car | ||
By way of explanation.....
"Everything has a price." |
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9. | Why is Vincent's lady-friend Daka fired from her job as a stripper? | ||
she stood up for herself after a patron slapped her | |||
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her pregnant belly is getting too big for her to pole dance well | ||
she isn't making as much money as her fellow strippers | |||
she refuses to dance nude | |||
10. | Maggie gets stuck at work and calls Vincent to ask him to pick Oliver up from school. Vincent is nasty to her - why? | ||
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he assumes she is a telemarketer calling to sell him something | ||
he is already sick of being Oliver's babysitter | |||
he hates phone calls in general - he likes to be texted, not called | |||
he thinks she is one of his ex-girlfriends | |||
11. | Vincent picks up Oliver at school, and after helping him fend off bullies, takes the boy with him to ________. | ||
a funeral home | |||
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a nursing home | ||
an elementary school | |||
a park | |||
12. | Vincent disguises himself as ________ before heading into the room where his wife, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, resides. | ||
a maintenance man | |||
a housekeeper | |||
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a doctor | ||
another nursing home resident | |||
13. | Vincent notices that Maggie has been crying before coming into the house to pick Oliver up. What's she upset about? | ||
she misses her ex-husband | |||
her ex-husband is having a baby with his new girlfriend | |||
she is broke and is considering filing for bankruptcy | |||
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her ex-husband is suing for custody of Oliver | ||
14. | Shortly after Oliver arrives at Vincent's house to share the news that he thinks he broke the bully's nose in gym class thanks to Vincent's self-defense lesson, Vincent gives Oliver a lesson on _________. | ||
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horse racing and betting | ||
playing poker | |||
drinking scotch | |||
driving a stick shift | |||
15. | Thanks to Oliver, Vincent wins big at the track. What does he do with the winnings, after bringing his overdrawn bank account to a $0 balance? | ||
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he opens a savings account for Oliver | ||
he pays off the balance at his wife's nursing home | |||
he settles his debts with Zucko the bookie | |||
he buys a new car | |||
16. | Maggie is informed Oliver's fight at school and is called in for a conference. Which of the following is not something Maggie admits during the conference? | ||
her ex-husband was having multiple affairs while they were married | |||
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she didn't want to send Oliver to private school, but her ex insisted she do so | ||
Oliver is adopted | |||
she gets depressed at work as a CAT scan tech, looking at tumors and blood clots, etc. all day long | |||
17. | Behind in his payments to the retirement home, Vincent is told he needs to pay back payments - and 3 months in advance - by the following week. How does the broke Vin try to get some money? | ||
he becomes Daka's pimp | |||
he rents out a room in his house to a friend from the bar | |||
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he steals bottles of medication from the retirement home's front desk | ||
he sells his car | |||
18. | Why does Vin's plan to sell the medication go awry? | ||
he is caught selling to an undercover police officer | |||
the medications he's trying to sell have expired, making their selling price very low | |||
Oliver finds the bag filled with medicine bottles and, assuming Vin is doing something illegal, gives it to Maggie | |||
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the medications are for epilepsy and softening stool, rather than painkillers | ||
19. | After losing all of Oliver's savings at the horse track, Vincent arrives home to find bookies waiting for him. They don't find much of anything of value in the house as repayment, but Vin is upset that they are taking - what? | ||
his cat | |||
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his wife's jewelry | ||
his television | |||
his antique gun collection | |||
20. | Bookie Zucko and his thugs leave Vincent's house rather than beating him up - why? | ||
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Vincent collapses on the floor and they assume he will just die there | ||
they discover he has cancer | |||
Oliver shows up unexpectedly at the house after skipping school | |||
the police arrive after receiving a call about "suspicious noises" coming from Vin's house | |||
21. | Oliver, Maggie and Daka all help Vincent with his therapy after the stroke, but Oliver really goes the extra mile in cheering Vin up, by sneaking ______ into Vin's hospital room. | ||
bourbon | |||
cigarettes | |||
Playboy issues | |||
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Vin's cat | ||
22. | Vin is upset to learn that ________ while he was in the hospital recovering from the stroke. | ||
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his wife died | ||
his cat ran away | |||
Maggie filed a lawsuit against hi | |||
he was banned from the local bar | |||
23. | How does Oliver know that his father cheated on Maggie with multiple women? | ||
his teacher, Brother Geraghty, filled him in | |||
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it's her Facebook status | ||
his father admitted it to him during a visitation | |||
Vincent told him | |||
24. | Oliver decides to do his "Saints Among Us" presentation on Vincent, and interviews Vin's acquaintances. Who helps Oliver do this? | ||
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former bully - now Oliver's friend - Ocinski | ||
Maggie | |||
his father | |||
Brother Geraghty | |||
25. | How does Vincent discover that he is the subject of Oliver's "Saints Among Us" presentation? | ||
Maggie kidnaps him and brings him, blindfolded, into the auditorium | |||
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Daka tricks him into thinking she's in labor, and drives him to the school rather than to the hospital | ||
he receives a letter from Oliver's school, informing him of such | |||
Ana, the worker from the nursing home, calls him and begs him to show up at the ceremony | |||