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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a man named Frank keep mentioning at the party?
(a) That Kidd looks familiar.
(b) The fact that he has lost a spiral notebook full of poems.
(c) He has had a relationship with Denny.
(d) He has slept with Lanya.

2. What is the scorpions' home called?
(a) The nest.
(b) The house of scorpions.
(c) The lair.
(d) The chest.

3. Why does Frank want to join the scorpions?
(a) The situation at the park commune is changing.
(b) He wants to pressure Kidd.
(c) Frank is greedy and wants the scorpions' food.
(d) He is trying to be more manly.

4. What unfortunate event happens at the party?
(a) Someone is killed.
(b) Lanya has sex with someone else.
(c) A fire starts.
(d) A fight breaks out.

5. Who does Kidd wish would leave the party?
(a) Calkins.
(b) Tak.
(c) Frank.
(d) Lanya.

6. Now that Kidd is a full scorpion, what is his relationship like with Lanya?
(a) They are just friends, but are intimate with each other.
(b) They only see each other when Denny goes to see Lanya.
(c) They barely talk.
(d) They are strictly friends.

7. How does Kidd try to help out after the fires have been set?
(a) He tries to put out all of the fires.
(b) He throws Harrison into one of the fires.
(c) He looks around for people who got caught in the fire.
(d) He saves Lanya from a fire.

8. Why does Lanya become upset with the rest of the scorpions?
(a) They are mean to her and hurt her feelings.
(b) The scorpions break into a house and force the occupants out.
(c) She finds out they attacked her when she was younger.
(d) They take up too much of the Kidd's time.

9. Why has Kidd decided to join the scorpions?
(a) To spite Lanya.
(b) They make life easier for Kidd.
(c) To infiltrate the group.
(d) He is bored.

10. Does Kidd seem to sincerely care about Lanya?
(a) No, he uses her for amusement.
(b) Yes, but he does not know how to tell her.
(c) No, he just wants to have sex with her.
(d) Yes, but he is doubtful about her loyalty.

11. While walking to Lanya's school, who do they see?
(a) The red headed Irish man.
(b) Children fighting in the school yard.
(c) Tak, running errands.
(d) The death, blind, blonde Mexican.

12. What happens to the poems Kidd writes while he lives with the scorpions?
(a) Lanya tears them up.
(b) They are ripped up by Calkins.
(c) They are stolen by Frank.
(d) Lanya takes the poems and stores them for Kidd.

13. What dominates a lot of the scorpions conversation?
(a) Music.
(b) Sex.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Robbing.

14. When Kidd is finally able to see Lanya, what do they discuss?
(a) Poetry and capital punishment.
(b) Denny's oddness.
(c) Their inability to effectively communicate.
(d) Ways to improve their relationship.

15. Which of the scorpions tends to cause a lot of trouble and fights?
(a) Pepper.
(b) Pinky.
(c) Bunny.
(d) Copperhead.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are people asking questions about Kidd?

2. Why does Lanya believe that Kidd wrote the poems?

3. Why is the moon like this place?

4. By whom is one of the letters signed?

5. Why do the scorpions have to move?

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