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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon arriving at work in Chapter 4, Sportcoat becomes confused when he discovers what in his pocket?

2. What move is Deems pondering in Chapter 7?

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

4. According to the narrator in Chapter 3, how many people witnessed the shooting?

5. As Joe Peck reveals in Chapter 11, he needs help with a shipment coming from which country?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What band is playing in Chapter 10? Why?

6. How was Sportcoat’s childhood an unhappy one, as revealed in Chapter 2?

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

8. What happens to Earl in Chapter 12? How is this situation resolved?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay defining friendship from the perspective of Sportcoat and Hot Sausage. What is friendship, according to these characters? How do the choices they make reflect these values?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the characters of Sister Paul, Sister Gee, and Haroldeen. How do they reflect the changing nature of the city?

Essay Topic 3

Does the end justify the means? How does the novel answer this question? How would Sportcoat answer this question? How would Deems? What about the Elephant?

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