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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. When Mikey is lying in bed thinking, which debate is he thinking about and replaying in his mind?
(a) The debate with his teacher.
(b) The debate with his mother.
(c) The debate with his sister.
(d) The debate with his father.

2. How long have Silas and Alec been best friends?
(a) Since they began working together.
(b) Since high school.
(c) Since joining the army together.
(d) Since childhood.

3. Which subject does Shirley Graham teach at Mikey's school?
(a) Biology.
(b) Spanish.
(c) Literature.
(d) Geometry.

4. Which type of school and church did Lydia attend as a child?
(a) Catholic.
(b) Baptist.
(c) Pentecostal.
(d) Lutheran.

5. How does Lydia get home from the hospital after she is discharged?
(a) She decides to walk.
(b) Mam Agnes drives her home.
(c) She takes a taxi.
(d) Mikey drives her home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color hue does Kate claim to see emanating from Mikey's navel?

2. What is the name of Silas's father?

3. To which of the following does Mikey compare his childhood relationship to his mother?

4. Who sends Lydia a letter from Toronto?

5. Why does Silas fear that Lydia is going into shock?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lydia react to the broken glass beneath her feet?

2. What unusual event happens when Silas is at the grocery store at the opening of the novel?

3. Why do Kate Jessup and Julian Solomon come to stay at the Ali household?

4. What event does Lydia admit to Silas when she hears that Du Boise is back in town?

5. How does Mikey treat the small bird that flies in through his kitchen window?

6. What is Mikey's reaction to reading that he is the product of a rape in his mother's diary?

7. Why does Lydia have to stay as long as she does in the hospital, and how does she pass her days there?

8. How did Lydia find out about Silas's affair?

9. How does Kate react to Mikey while she is staying with him?

10. How does the Ali family react to Silas's seizure?

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