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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Lanya arrives at the Reverend's house, what does she tell Kidd?
(a) She would like to go to the beach.
(b) She wants to move in with Kidd.
(c) She wants to become a teacher.
(d) She has found a house in which to live.

2. How long has it been since Lanya has seen Kidd?
(a) 10 days.
(b) 7 days.
(c) 3 days.
(d) 5 days.

3. As what does Kidd describe himself to Newboy?
(a) A lover of fine art.
(b) A person confused by the art.
(c) A writer with a lot of experience.
(d) A couple day old poet.

4. What does Kidd begin to think about his writing and poetry?
(a) They are the best poems ever.
(b) He will ask Newboy for guidance.
(c) That he will stop writing altogether.
(d) He wants to get better.

5. About what do the women ask him questions?
(a) The way to the train station.
(b) If the sky is blue.
(c) The world outside of Bellona.
(d) How to get to NYC.

6. Why does the woman in the cage consider Kidd to be so worldly?
(a) She has been trapped in a cave.
(b) He seems like he is very wise.
(c) Because he has been to many places.
(d) Kidd seems advanced for his years.

7. Who is Ernest Newboy?
(a) A local hero.
(b) A famous poet visiting Bellona by invitation of Roger Calkins.
(c) An apartment building owner.
(d) A gambler who has lost a lot of money.

8. Who does Kidd find to help him?
(a) Eddy.
(b) Denny.
(c) Bunny.
(d) Lanya.

9. When Mr. Richards arrives home, who is still with Mrs. Richards?
(a) Only Kidd.
(b) No one.
(c) Madame Brown and Kidd.
(d) June and Kidd.

10. Why does Kidd go back to the park commune?
(a) So he can be a part of a community.
(b) He is attracted to Milly.
(c) Everyone else is mean.
(d) He wants more food.

11. What company does Richards "work" for?
(a) A dance company.
(b) A water company.
(c) A systems engineering company.
(d) His own company.

12. How does Kidd and Denny's relationship begin?
(a) Denny saves Kidd's life in a fight.
(b) Tak introduces Denny to Kidd.
(c) Lanya introduces them.
(d) Kidd saves Denny's life in a scuffle.

13. Who helps to retrieve Bobby's body?
(a) June.
(b) Tak.
(c) The scorpions.
(d) Lanya.

14. Does Kidd think he has any reason for getting on the bus that pulls up near the bar?
(a) Yes he wants to leave Bellona.
(b) No, he would rather stay at the bar.
(c) Yes, to go see Madame Brown.
(d) No, he wanders onto the bus.

15. How does Mrs, Richards try to keep up appearances and thus become delusional?
(a) She cannot use the internet to understand what has happened.
(b) She acts as though all her old friends are still in the neighborhood.
(c) She refuses to read current news articles.
(d) She pretends she will entertain her husband's business associates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Tak's profession?

2. Why is Mrs. Richards afraid to leave her apartment, let alone Bellona?

3. Did the Richards ever have any intention of paying Kidd?

4. What is the first line of the novel Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany?

5. Who finds Kidd and helps him after the attack?

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