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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. According to the narrator in Chapter 7, why do the ants arrive every year?
(a) For King Kong.
(b) For sweet meat.
(c) For Jesus’s cheese.
(d) For hot sausage.

2. How much money does Hot Sausage offer Sportcoat to leave town in Chapter 4?
(a) $5.
(b) $50.
(c) $30.
(d) $20.

3. Where does Earl wake up in Chapter 10?
(a) Church.
(b) The subway.
(c) Bunch Moon's headquarters.
(d) His home.

4. For what does the Elephant yearn at the end of Chapter 11?
(a) Better health.
(b) A way out of the city.
(c) A means to retire.
(d) Someone to love him.

5. How old is the Elephant, as revealed in Chapter 5?
(a) 50.
(b) 40.
(c) 20.
(d) 30.

Short Answer Questions

1. What activity is interrupted by the arrival of the police in Chapter 9?

2. According to the narrator in Chapter 2, where was Sportcoat born?

3. Which local criminal runs the drug operation at the Cause?

4. According to Rufus in Chapter 8, who should accompany Sportcoat to see Sister Paul?

5. Who employs the Elephant, as revealed in Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jet influence the shooting that occurs at the start of the novel?

2. Who is the Governor, and what does he ask of the Elephant in Chapter 5?

3. Who is Hot Sausage? What does he tell Sportcoat in Chapter 4? How does Sportcoat respond?

4. Who is Jet and what important information has he learned about the Cause, as revealed in Chapter 3?

5. What changes is Bunch considering making, as revealed in Chapter 6?

6. Who is Thelonius Ellis? What do we learn about him in Chapters 9 and 10?

7. According to the narrator in Chapter 1, over what do Hettie and Sportcoat continue to argue, even after Hettie’s passing?

8. How does Sportcoat both hurt and help Deems in Chapter 3?

9. What happens to Earl in Chapter 8?

10. What personal information does the reader learn about the Elephant at the start of Chapter 5?

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