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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. How does Sam respond to the thing sitting in the corner of his office?
(a) He embraces it.
(b) He throws his phone at it.
(c) He yells at it.
(d) He laughs.

2. What does M.F. think about as he drives back toward Las Vegas?
(a) A date with his girlfriend.
(b) What he will make for dinner.
(c) His college basketball career.
(d) His mother calling to say she needed him.

3. What is a woman doing behind Coyote while he's using Sam's cheating machine?
(a) Talking loudly on her cell phone.
(b) Impatiently tapping her foot.
(c) Singing loudly.
(d) Coughing incessantly.

4. When Sam arrives at the hotel in Las Vegas, to whom does he give his car keys?
(a) The valet.
(b) Calliope.
(c) Coyote.
(d) M.F.

5. After explaining he didn't call the police, what does M.F. tell Sam he wants?
(a) Coyote to come with him.
(b) The keys to the limo.
(c) Sam's driver's license.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sam ask Pokey to do so Sam can get to the Underworld?

2. Who is the Egyptian God of the Underworld?

3. Why is Coyote's help necessary to get Pokey out of the clinic?

4. In the chapter titled, "Let Slip the Dogs of Irony," what is Adeline reading?

5. What is the explanation offered by the person who tells Sam about the polar bear?

Short Essay Questions

1. What two observations does M.F. make in King's Lake, Nevada when he catches up with Sam and Coyote?

2. Why does Sam attack Coyote when he returns from the Underworld?

3. Why does Adeline ask the nurse at the clinic if there is room now that a horse, a young man, and an old man have left?

4. Why does Coyote refer to the ATM machine as a cheating machine?

5. How does Sam trick Amstead Houston into giving him the sacred arrow bundle?

6. What is the memory of sneaking in to see Custer's grave meant to point out to Sam?

7. Why does Anubis refuse to return Calliope's soul to her body?

8. Why does Calliope say she did not call Sam when she discovered that Lonnie had taken Grubb?

9. Why does Coyote suggest they all go to a Crow reservation in Montana?

10. Why isn't Coyote able to win much at the private gambling table M.F. takes him to?

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