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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Richmond is referred to by the author in Chapter 11 as not a city at all but the world's largest what?
(a) Mosquito village.
(b) Confederate museum.
(c) Rural Urbanity.
(d) Yankee museum.

2. How many years have passed since Sissy left her hometown, in Chapter 17?
(a) 10.
(b) 6.
(c) 5.
(d) 14.

3. Who is with Miss Adrian in Chapter 39?
(a) Dorothea.
(b) Gloria.
(c) The Countess.
(d) Estelle.

4. What vehicle are the cowgirls leaning against in the beginning of Chapter 46?
(a) Peyote wagon.
(b) Goat wagon.
(c) Cow cart.
(d) Mushroomobile.

5. Who is the forewoman of the ranch?
(a) The Countess.
(b) Bonanza Jellybean.
(c) Dolores.
(d) Dorothea.

6. What is Julian's last name?
(a) Gitche.
(b) Ross.
(c) Skawinski.
(d) Conwell.

7. What does Julian begin drinking in Chapter 28?
(a) Brandy.
(b) Tequila.
(c) Port.
(d) Scotch.

8. Who is the Countess going to visit in the Hamptons in Chapter 20?
(a) Truman.
(b) Johnny Carson.
(c) Nixon.
(d) J.F.K.

9. Who was featured in the Lucky Strike commercials, as discussed by the author in Chapter 19?
(a) Dorothy Collins.
(b) Merle Haggart.
(c) Brant Williams.
(d) Billie Dawkins.

10. Whose photograph is in the outhouse of the Rubber Rose Ranch?
(a) Joan Crawford's.
(b) Shirley Temple's.
(c) Dale Evans'.
(d) John Wayne's.

11. What tribe of Native Americans does Sissy supposedly have in her ancestry?
(a) Siwash.
(b) Dakota.
(c) Alpache.
(d) Cherokee.

12. Who is Bonanza Jellybean in the outhouse with in Chapter 33?
(a) Dolores.
(b) Katherine.
(c) Dorothea.
(d) Sissy.

13. What does Robbins call the "ace of the elements" in the Preface?
(a) Air.
(b) Fire.
(c) Water.
(d) Earth.

14. How old is Big Red?
(a) 32.
(b) 23.
(c) 21.
(d) 27.

15. Where are "crimes against nature" to be confined at the ranch?
(a) The chicken coop.
(b) The back yard.
(c) The hayloft.
(d) The alpaca pen.

Short Answer Questions

1. The first car that ever stopped for Sissy was a what?

2. What is the name of the church where Julian and Sissy get married?

3. In Chapter 45, Robbins writes that the cow milk molecule is how many times larger than the molecule of mother's milk?

4. Robbins writes in Chapter 34 that a sentence of lead "gives a reader an entirely different sensation from one made of" what?

5. In what city is Sissy at the beginning of Chapter 17?

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