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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. How does this chapter begin?
(a) With edited versions of a journal.
(b) With three lines of an essay.
(c) With lyrics to music.
(d) With a poem.

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

3. In the sections of the chapter that are different from its primary make up, what is displayed?
(a) More information concerning the three-way relationship.
(b) Dialogue with Lanya and Kidd.
(c) Detailed pornographic pictures.
(d) Scorpion conversations.

4. What are most Bellonians, including the scorpions, completely lacking?
(a) A way to kill animals and eat meat.
(b) A purpose for life.
(c) A lifetime partner.
(d) A way to feel appreciated amongst their peers.

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 finds out on one of his trips to the rest of the US.
(d) He says the date coincides with the position of the planets.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is this section of the book like?

2. When Lanya arrives, what does she wish to give back to Kidd?

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

4. Why does Lanya believe that Kidd wrote the poems?

5. Why did Edward join the scorpions?

Short Essay Questions

1. When were most of Kidd's poems written?

2. Is Kidd jealous of Denny's time with Lanya?

3. What is true about the scorpions and other people in Bellona who do nothing with their time?

4. Why are the scorpions moving again?

5. What problem doesn't affect Calkins' house and why is this strange?

6. What is important in the scorpions dialogue?

7. Why does Lanya get fed up with Kidd and choose to leave?

8. What does everyone's willingness to participate in group sexual acts say about the people in Bellona?

9. Why is this chapter difficult to understand?

10. Although Kidd and Lanya seem to have known each other for a while, what side of her did he never see ?

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