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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 gift does the visiting professor give to Roza in the flashback in "No One Is Fine"?
(a) A hymnal that was his great-great grandfather's.
(b) A rose bush.
(c) A parakeet.
(d) A small carved dog.

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

3. What is Petey surprised that she does not find in Finn's room in "The Whole Picture"?
(a) Kittens.
(b) A large collection of baseball caps.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Pictures of people.

4. What does Petey tell Finn that he is afflicted with in "Blindside"?
(a) Prosopagnosia.
(b) Psoriasis.
(c) Photographic memory.
(d) Depression.

5. What is a common name for Finn's condition?
(a) Extra-sensitive hearing.
(b) Tooth decay.
(c) Nearsightedness.
(d) Face blindness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Charlie Valentine's real name?

2. What does Roza plan to do after her return in "Sunrise"?

3. What does Charlie call the man who kidnapped Roza?

4. What are the girls drinking in Roza's dream in "No One Is Fine"?

5. Why does Finn run out of the diner in "Sidetracked"?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the chapter entitled "Blindside," how does Finn react to finding out he is probably face blind?

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

3. In the chapter entitled "Sunrise," what is Finn surprised that Roza knows about him?

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 "The Ballad of Charlie Valentine," what effect does Charlie say that Roza had on the people of Bone Gap?

6. In the chapter entitled "Slaughter," why does Roza slice her face?

7. In the chapter entitled "Crows," why does Sean jog into the house?

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

9. 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)?

10. In the chapter entitled "The Whole Picture," what has Petey discovered, she thinks, about Finn?

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