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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 the girls drinking in Roza's dream in "No One Is Fine"?
(a) Honey.
(b) Water.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Vodka.

2. What does Roza decorate Rus with in "The Dead"?
(a) Bark.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Algae.
(d) Scarves.

3. What kinds of gaps does Charlie tell Finn that Bone Gap has in "The Ballad of Charlie Valentine"?
(a) Gaps made of mountains.
(b) Gaps in the world.
(c) Gaps made of rocks.
(d) Gaps between people.

4. What does Petey make fun of one of the people who have gathered around about in "Sidetracked"?
(a) A weird hair cut.
(b) Bad grammar.
(c) An odd accent.
(d) An unusual last name.

5. What do Sean and Finn talk about on the way home from the hospital in "Blindside"?
(a) Kittens.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Politics.
(d) Football.

Short Answer Questions

1. Roza knows that Finn likes whom, according to the narrator in "Sidetracked"?

2. Petey does not want people to know that she is what, according to the narrator in "The Whole Picture"?

3. How does Finn feel about his condition that he has just learned about in "Punched"?

4. What kind of course is the family with the mother and her two sons trying to complete in "The Lamb"?

5. Roza wakes up in a room that is described how in "The Lamb"?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the chapter entitled "The Lamb," how is the corn personified?

2. In the chapter entitled "Sidetracked," why had Roza said that Petey was "fierce like queen"?

3. In the chapter entitled "The Ballad of Charlie Valentine," why does Charlie not want his great-grandchildren around?

4. In the chapter entitled "Sunrise," for what reason does Petey think that Finn and Sean's yard has been littered and vandalized with toilet paper?

5. In the chapter entitled "Slaughter," what does the icy-eyed man tell Finn after he finds Roza?

6. In the chapter entitled "The Dead," what do the Fields seem to be?

7. In the chapter entitled "The Lamb," how does Roza end up in the O'Sullivan's barn?

8. In the chapter entitled "The Whole Picture," how does Petey justify to herself that she snoops around Finn's room?

9. In the chapter entitled "Blindside," why is Petey so upset?

10. In the chapter entitled "The Fields," what events and elements seem as if they might be fantasy and not real (which is characteristic of magical realism, the genre of this novel)?

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