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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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) They steal coffee.
(d) Someone donates it to the scorpions.

5. How does Kamp figure out the date?
(a) He has been keeping track in a notebook.
(b) He calls his mother to find out.
(c) He says the date coincides with the position of the planets.
(d) He finds out on one of his trips to the rest of the US.

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

7. What do Tak and Kidd go looking to find for Lanya?
(a) A new hat.
(b) Materials from which she can make a dress.
(c) A nice car.
(d) Some bedding for her bedroom.

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

9. Where does Kidd go to look for Lanya?
(a) The store.
(b) The abandoned car lot.
(c) The bar.
(d) The bus depot.

10. Have Kidd's memory problems gone away?
(a) Yes, because of pills he finds.
(b) No, but he only rarely has memory lapses.
(c) Yes, they are able to help Kidd fully remember.
(d) No, he still has black outs.

11. 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 looks around for people who got caught in the fire.
(c) He throws Harrison into one of the fires.
(d) He saves Lanya from a fire.

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

13. How does Kidd feel about Lanya's refusal?
(a) Distracted.
(b) Confused.
(c) Rejected.
(d) Tired of games.

14. What is this section of the book like?
(a) Fun and inventive.
(b) Heavy with symbolism.
(c) Suitable for a specific taste.
(d) Very confusing for the reader.

15. Why is Denny's involvement in their relationship strange to Kidd now?
(a) Denny is not as mature as Kidd.
(b) Denny is now Lanya's boyfriend.
(c) He cannot see Lanya without seeing Denny.
(d) Every time Kidd and Lanya have sex, Denny is there too.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do Nightmare and the other scorpions think has happened to the sky?

3. When Kidd finally decides to write again, what does he write?

4. Why is the moon like this place?

5. In the excerpts of this chapter, Kidd seems to have what problem?

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