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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Kidd think Lanya is becoming a real person?
(a) Kidd appreciates Lanya's real body.
(b) She is expressing her opinion.
(c) He is impressed about her knowledge concerning poetry and art.
(d) She comes back to him.

2. What does Kidd remember about the journal?
(a) It is not truly his.
(b) It had a red cover.
(c) He dropped it in the woods.
(d) Writing some passages but not others.

3. At the end of the section, what place do Kidd and the rest of the scorpions vandalize?
(a) A store.
(b) A bank.
(c) The bar.
(d) A restaurant.

4. What did Lanya's school used to be?
(a) A grocery store.
(b) A clothing store.
(c) A bank.
(d) A factory.

5. Why will there be hot coffee for everyone in Chapter V?
(a) They find it by the bar.
(b) The scorpions find a coffee warehouse.
(c) Someone donates it to the scorpions.
(d) They steal coffee.

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

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

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

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

10. At the beginning of the chapter, what does Kidd want to do?
(a) Possibly leave Bellona.
(b) Hurt other people because they can't help him.
(c) Kill himself.
(d) Understand his memory lapses.

11. Why is June looking for her brother Edward at the scorpions nest?
(a) She wants to speak with Kidd.
(b) She would like to show her poems to Kidd.
(c) She wants Edward to take her and her parents away from Bellona.
(d) She wants to become a scorpion.

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

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

14. Why is the moon like this place?
(a) You don't know anything about the two places even when you are there.
(b) The moon is cold and unforgiving.
(c) It is vacant of all contact to the outside world.
(d) Sometimes the moon's sky bursts into flames.

15. What does Kamp think it is time for him to do?
(a) Write his next book.
(b) Buy a house in Bellona.
(c) Leave Bellona.
(d) Ask Lanya to marry him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kidd and Lanya's relationship has turned into what?

2. Later, at the bar, what is everyone discussing?

3. How have the characters been unable to grow themselves throughout the book?

4. What new chaotic event has taken Bellona under siege?

5. On the way to the party, who does Kidd stop to pick up?

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