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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Later, at the bar, what is everyone discussing?
(a) Newboy's new poem.
(b) Tak's new relationship.
(c) The flash of light they saw in the sky.
(d) Kidd's party.

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

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

4. Who finds Kidd wandering and invites him to stay at his house?
(a) Madame Brown.
(b) Lanya.
(c) Tak.
(d) Denny.

5. Prior to now, what did Kidd consider Lanya to be?
(a) An object.
(b) Unimportant to Kidd.
(c) A good teacher.
(d) A person.

6. When Lanya arrives, what does she wish to give back to Kidd?
(a) His favorite book.
(b) His orchid.
(c) Love poems he wrote to her.
(d) His book of poems and writings.

7. Who walks an angry Lanya home?
(a) Kidd.
(b) Lambert.
(c) Denny.
(d) Tak.

8. What have many of the characters discovered?
(a) How to live without certain necessities.
(b) That they want to escape Bellona.
(c) How to act like they have a normal city.
(d) Some kind of routine amongst the chaos.

9. The next day, when Lanya, Kidd, and the scorpions go outside, what do they notice?
(a) The old warehouse exploded.
(b) The sky is filled with smoke.
(c) The sky is falling.
(d) The other gangs outside of their house.

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

11. 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) Lanya takes the poems and stores them for Kidd.
(d) They are stolen by Frank.

12. How have the characters been unable to grow themselves throughout the book?
(a) The characters have settled into their lives.
(b) They are all experiencing memory loss.
(c) There is something in Bellona which keeps people from aging.
(d) They all want to stay in Bellona which offers no growth.

13. At the end of Chapter V, what does the reader continue to wonder?
(a) How these people came to Bellona.
(b) All of the answers are correct.
(c) What has happened to Bellona.
(d) Where Bellona is located in the US.

14. To what does she let the children listen everyday?
(a) A television show from the 1950s.
(b) A recording of her playing the harmonica.
(c) An old record she has.
(d) Her recorded voice.

15. In the excerpts of this chapter, Kidd seems to have what problem?
(a) Deciding which incidents occurred at what time.
(b) Choosing a new girlfriend.
(c) Remembering what day it is.
(d) Figuring out his life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are most Bellonians, including the scorpions, completely lacking?

2. Why doesn't Lanya like the scorpions' house?

3. What do Tak and Kidd go looking to find for Lanya?

4. When Kidd learns about the memory lapse, how does he react?

5. What sort of experiments are done at Kamp's space program?

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