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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who helps to retrieve Bobby's body?
(a) June.
(b) Tak.
(c) Lanya.
(d) The scorpions.

2. Who cuts Milly's leg at the park commune?
(a) Tak.
(b) Eddy.
(c) John.
(d) Frank.

3. Who is Ernest Newboy?
(a) A famous poet visiting Bellona by invitation of Roger Calkins.
(b) A gambler who has lost a lot of money.
(c) An apartment building owner.
(d) A local hero.

4. Who does Kidd find in an apartment on the floor below the Richards' current apartment?
(a) Tak.
(b) Lanya and the park commune people.
(c) Scorpions.
(d) Madame Brown.

5. How long has it been since Lanya has seen Kidd?
(a) 3 days.
(b) 10 days.
(c) 5 days.
(d) 7 days.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is interesting about the object that Kidd is given?

2. To whom does Lanya want to show Kidd's poems?

3. What does Mrs. Richards refuse to face about Bellona?

4. What does this person give to Kidd?

5. What does Madame Brown try to explain to Kidd?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Kidd feel used and angry at his new work situation?

2. What event does Kidd hope changes Mrs Richards and forces her to see reality?

3. What surprises Kidd about the sample book copy?

4. Why is Kidd angry with the Richards and why does he end his work relationship with them?

5. What does Mr. Richards do everyday he "goes to work."

6. What is odd about the people who stay in Bellona after the event?

7. The next day, why does Kidd take a job from Madame Brown?

8. Does the reader know what is very curious about Bellona?

9. Why did Lanya destroy all of her paintings?

10. Why do Lanya and Kidd think June may have killed Bobby?

(see the answer keys)

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