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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 is Charlie Valentine's real name?
(a) His real name is Charles Valentino.
(b) His real name is Chuck Valenti.
(c) He refuses to say.
(d) He does not remember.

2. Who does Mel call after arriving at the O'Sullivan house in "The Whole Picture"?
(a) The police.
(b) An orthodontist.
(c) Dr. Reed.
(d) Didi.

3. Finn's "hockey-puck roll" is an example of what literary device, in "Questions"?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Simile.
(d) Metaphor.

4. What does Petey have to take to the cafe in "Crows"?
(a) Cups and a waffle iron.
(b) Honey and cookies.
(c) Bread and sugar.
(d) Lard and tomatoes.

5. Roza knows that Finn likes whom, according to the narrator in "Sidetracked"?
(a) Amber Hass.
(b) Mel.
(c) Darla.
(d) Petey.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What other language besides English does the professor speak?

3. Who tells Petey that the fries are "real crispy today" in "Crows"?

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

5. Jonas says that Finn is a "few Fruit Loops short of a full bowl" in the chapter "Crows." What is that an example of?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In the chapter entitled "No One Is Fine," what message might Roza have gotten out of her dream?

3. 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)?

4. In the chapter entitled "Crows," what do the people at the cafe seem to think about Finn?

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

6. In the chapter entitled "Questions," when he is in the hospital and on medication, why does Finn think that Sean hates him?

7. In the chapter entitled "The Dead," what character traits does the kidnapper display?

8. In the chapter entitled "Sidetracked," what are some general character traits that the people of Bone Gap, Illinois, seem to have as a whole?

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

10. In the chapter entitled "No One Is Fine," why had her botany professor offered her a ride?

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