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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 is Earl injured in Chapter 12?
(a) He is suffocated.
(b) He is shot.
(c) He falls from a window.
(d) He is electrocuted.

2. According to the Irishman in Chapter 5, where is this object hidden?
(a) In God's mouth.
(b) In God’s hands.
(c) In God's heart.
(d) In God's eyes.

3. What is the name of the band playing at the start of Chapter 10?
(a) Los Suaves.
(b) Los Soñadores.
(c) Los Lobos.
(d) Los Planetas.

4. In what year did Sportcoat’s wife disappear, as revealed by the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1947.

5. What is the band celebrating in Chapter 10?
(a) The shooting of Deems.
(b) The homecoming of Soup Lopez.
(c) The discovery of the Christmas Club money.
(d) The arrival of Jesus's cheese.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator in Chapter 7, in what year did the ants originally come to America?

2. With what is Earl knocked out in Chapter 10?

3. What is the name of Deems’s cousin, who taught him how to profit from heroin?

4. According to Dominic in Chapter 10, what will his gift do for Sportcoat?

5. According to the narrator in Chapter 4, about what does Sportcoat mostly argue with his wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Bunch Moon? What does he think about Deems in Chapter 6?

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

3. What does Joe Peck ask the Elephant in Chapter 11? How does the Elephant respond? Why?

4. What happens between Officer Potts and Sister Gee in Chapter 9?

5. Who is Earl? What reservations does he have, as revealed in Chapter 6?

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

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

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

9. How did Deems become a drug dealer, as revealed in Chapter 7? What was the result?

10. How did the red ants come to the United States, as revealed in Chapter 7?

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