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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 are Yuxis?
(a) The type of jeans that Simon wore.
(b) Sarat Chestnut's favorite kind of cookie.
(c) The unfiltered cigarettes Benjamin Chestnut smoked.
(d) A plant the Chestnuts ground up to feed their chickens.

2. How does Martina react to Sarat earning $100 by going into Emerald Creek?
(a) She is mad and slaps Sarat.
(b) She is thrilled and takes the money from Sarat.
(c) She is proud and throws Sarat a party.
(d) She is frightened that Sarat will get sick.

3. What was it considered a crime to use?
(a) Matches.
(b) Electricity.
(c) Fossil fuels.
(d) Water.

4. What emblem is on the flag of the United Rebels?
(a) A rattlesnake.
(b) A gas pump.
(c) A pecan tree.
(d) A blue bird.

5. How is the refugee camp laid out?
(a) In the shape of a pentagon with each of five states occupying a border.
(b) In the shape of a square with four squares inside.
(c) In the shape of a triangle with three distinct regions.
(d) In the shape of a circle with quarter slices.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sarat do to her hair after she goes into Emerald Creek?

2. What is an UOD?

3. Who were the Blue Badges?

4. How much money does the Chestnut family receive from the War Office for Martina's death?

5. Where is the capital of the Federal government?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Marcus Exum's dad say about the refugee camp?

2. What is the significance of the pet turtle, Cherylene Cee?

3. What is the significance of the Statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe?

4. How did Sarat's name come to be?

5. Discuss why Sarat's father is going to the government office.

6. Explain where the South gets most of its provisions.

7. Explain why Sarat earns the nickname of Payday.

8. Who was Gerry Tusk and how does he relate to the story?

9. Explain why Martina wants Simon to join the Free Southerners and not the rebels.

10. Explain the narrator's vocation and how it affects his telling of the story.

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