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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word used by the Captain in Chapter 81 means to explain?
(a) Eradicate.
(b) Cultivate.
(c) Magistrate.
(d) Elucidate.

2. What is the name of the cult that the narrator alludes to having worn Nikes when committing mass suicide in Chapter 103?
(a) The Samson Cult.
(b) The Manson Family.
(c) The Rainbow Family.
(d) The Peoples Temple.

3. What color hair does the girl with the puzzle have at the hospital?
(a) Gray.
(b) Blue.
(c) Black.
(d) Red.

4. What is being "put to the test" in Chapter 69?
(a) The cannon.
(b) A diving bell.
(c) The tiller.
(d) The rudder.

5. From what narrative perspective is Chapter 70 related?
(a) Fourth person.
(b) Third person.
(c) Second person.
(d) First person.

6. What does Caden describe his doctor as always wearing in Chapter 84?
(a) Hawaiian shirts.
(b) White lab coats.
(c) A gold watch.
(d) Black ties.

7. What game does the narrator describe Hal's mother playing with him in Chapter 120?
(a) Chess.
(b) Checkers.
(c) Shoots and Ladders.
(d) Sorry!

8. Into what business does the narrator storm, saying, "The worm. The worm. It knows what I know, and it wants to kill me," in Chapter 68?
(a) A shoe store.
(b) A candy store.
(c) A bank.
(d) A travel agency.

9. What Founding Father does Caden describe as "totally judgmental with that perpetual smirk" in Chapter 74?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) John Adams.
(c) Benjamin Franklin.
(d) Alexander Hamilton.

10. How many times does Callie say she's had "episodes" in Chapter 106?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

11. What does the Captain describe as the huge, scaled creature and "a very formidable adversary" in Chapter 118?
(a) "The Ballast-Grinder."
(b) "The Abyssmal Serpent."
(c) "The crestmare."
(d) "The Nemesi."

12. Dr. Poirot tells Caden in Chapter 105 that his construct of the world can be very seductive, but he says the price of it is what?
(a) Severe.
(b) Cheap.
(c) Reflective.
(d) Relational.

13. What is the name of the doctor that Caden sees at the hospital?
(a) Dr. Carlyle.
(b) Dr. Poirot.
(c) Dr. Cullen.
(d) Dr. Anderson.

14. Why does the girl with the blue hair say that Callie looks out the window in Chapter 101?
(a) "She thinks that she is willing the sun to rise."
(b) "She thinks that if she leaves the window her parents will leave her here."
(c) "She thinks the outside world goes away when she's not looking."
(d) "She thinks that the world is melting and she is stopping it with her mind."

15. The narrator says in Chapter 122, "If you think about it, the public perception of funky brain chemistry has been as varied and weird as the symptoms, historically speaking. If I had been born a Native American in another time, I might have been lauded as" what?
(a) "Medicine man."
(b) "A great warrior."
(c) "A hero."
(d) "A sacrificer."

Short Answer Questions

1. What phrase does Caden describe his father repeating every time he visits in Chapter 103?

2. What sea creature does the Captain describe the mysterious submarine fleeing from in his story in Chapter 81?

3. Who is described in Chapter 112 as "the girl with bandages on her throat"?

4. What does Calliope say she has been concentrating on in the beginning of Chapter 100?

5. What does the white whale battle against in the Captain's story in Chapter 81?

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