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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 area does Potts ask Sister Gee to avoid in Chapter 15?
(a) The church.
(b) The flagpole.
(c) The subway.
(d) The boiler room.

2. About whom does Potts warn Sister Gee in Chapter 15?
(a) Harold Dean.
(b) Joe Peck.
(c) The Elephant.
(d) Earl.

3. Why does the Governor’s daughter briefly interrupt his meeting with the Elephant in Chapter 13?
(a) To clean.
(b) To take notes.
(c) To give her father medicine.
(d) To meet the Elephant.

4. What truth does Sportcoat reveal about Pudgy Fingers in Chapter 26?
(a) That Pudgy Fingers is not really his biological child.
(b) That Pudgy Fingers is not really blind.
(c) That Pudgy Fingers is not really unintelligent.
(d) That Pudgy Fingers is not really pudgy.

5. In Chapter 21, the Elephant confirms that the Gorvino crime family knows which individual?
(a) Joe Peck.
(b) Bunch Moon.
(c) Harold Dean.
(d) Guido Elefante.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sportcoat describe the Elephant in Chapter 17?

2. According to Potts in Chapter 21, who had saved his life when he was a young officer?

3. What is the name of the Governor’s daughter, as revealed in Chapter 13?

4. What does the Elephant offer Sportcoat in Chapter 16?

5. What is Hot Sausage wearing in Chapter 17?

Short Essay Questions

1. What information does Potts give to Sister Gee in Chapter 18?

2. What does Hettie tell Sportcoat in Chapter 20?

3. What plan does Bunch Moon hatch in Chapter 14? Why?

4. With whom does Deems go out on a date in Chapter 17? What does he know about her?

5. What does the reader learn about Haroldeen in Chapter 22?

6. How does Sportcoat die?

7. Briefly describe the relationship between Sportcoat and Mrs. Elefante, as seen in Chapter 16.

8. What realizations does Sportcoat come to in Chapter 20? What does he decide to do in response?

9. What news does Potts give to Sister Gee in Chapter 15?

10. What plan does Sportcoat hatch in Chapter 17? How does Hot Sausage respond?

(see the answer keys)

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