2. When Kidd finally decides to write again, what does he write?
(a) A comic book.
(b) Nothing. He has nothing to write.
(c) More poems.
(d) A full book.

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

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

5. Why are people asking questions about Kidd?
(a) Kidd is still an outsider.
(b) Because he is the leader of the scorpions.
(c) Kidd is seen as a celebrity in Bellona.
(d) He is very popular and fun to be around.

6. What does Kidd wonder as they arrive at Calkins' house?
(a) Why he would agree to host the party.
(b) Why the house has so many bedrooms.
(c) Where he gets the electricity for the house.
(d) How he gets food to the house.

7. What new chaotic event has taken Bellona under siege?
(a) A sniper shooting.
(b) Another fire.
(c) A gang has taken Kidd hostage.
(d) Another girl has been raped.

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

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

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

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

12. Why does Kidd still question whether or not he wrote the poems?
(a) Many of the poems were written before he even began living with the scorpions.
(b) Kidd never liked writing.
(c) Because other people still keep bringing it up.
(d) He thinks one of his alternate personalities wrote the poems.

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

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

15. Why haven't any of the residents of Bellona tried to make contact with the outside world?
(a) They think the rest of the world has forgotten them.
(b) They lack the self purpose that would help them find a solution.
(c) They have been under siege.
(d) They think others will come and ruin their town.