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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the homemade object that Sportcoat gives to Deems in Chapter 23?
(a) A get-well card.
(b) A get-well potion.
(c) A get-well doll.
(d) A get-well bracelet.

2. What shocked Hettie about her New York home, as she reveals in Chapter 20?
(a) The lack of hope.
(b) The lack of laughter.
(c) The lack of plants.
(d) The lack of love.

3. How does Sportcoat describe the Elephant in Chapter 17?
(a) As conniving.
(b) As dependable.
(c) As good.
(d) As dumb.

4. What is the Elephant’s childhood nickname, as revealed in Chapter 13?
(a) Charles.
(b) Cecil.
(c) Christian.
(d) Caleb.

5. According to Sportcoat in Chapter 26, how has he changed in the last year?
(a) He is now sober.
(b) He has lost his faith.
(c) He is now a man of God.
(d) He is now happy.

6. According to Sister Paul in Chapter 24, the truck she had driven was full of what?
(a) Stolen televisions.
(b) Stolen cheese.
(c) Stolen jewels.
(d) Stolen shoes.

7. At the end of Chapter 14, Bunch devises a plan to rid himself of which two people?
(a) Deems and Sportcoat.
(b) Deems and Lightbulb.
(c) Potts and Jet.
(d) Sportcoat and Hot Sausage.

8. Who was the only other person to call the Elephant by his childhood nickname, as revealed in Chapter 13?
(a) His father.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) His mother.
(d) His brother.

9. Whose change in behavior worries Deems in Chapter 17?
(a) Earl.
(b) Sportcoat.
(c) Beanie.
(d) Harold Dean.

10. Who will arrange a meeting between Sportcoat and Deems, as discussed in Chapter 17?
(a) Dominic.
(b) Sister Gee.
(c) Rufus.
(d) Hot Sausage.

11. What is inside the paper bag that Sportcoat gives to Deems in Chapter 23?
(a) A golf ball.
(b) A baseball.
(c) A squeeze ball.
(d) A crystal ball.

12. Which person does Hot Sausage greatly dislike, as revealed in Chapter 17?
(a) Dominic.
(b) Soup Lopez.
(c) Deems.
(d) Rufus.

13. According to Lightbulb in Chapter 14, how has Deems changed since the shooting?
(a) He will no longer sell drugs to certain types of people.
(b) He will no longer sell heroin.
(c) He will no longer allow Sportcoat to walk free.
(d) He will no longer get revenge.

14. In Chapter 21, what does Potts fear will destroy the neighborhood?
(a) Disease.
(b) Heroin.
(c) Crime.
(d) Poverty.

15. By what name does Deems call Sportcoat in Chapter 23?
(a) Deacon Moonflower.
(b) Deacon Sportcoat.
(c) Deacon King Kong.
(d) Deacon Lambkin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon meeting the Governor’s daughter in Chapter 13, what does the Elephant want to do?

2. How old is Haroldeen, as revealed in Chapter 22?

3. Who accompanies the Elephant and Sportcoat as the retrieve the Venus in Chapter 25?

4. With whom does Deems go on a date in Chapter 17?

5. According to Sister Gee in Chapter 15, the people of the Cause do not need white cops to tell them about what?

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