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

2. Why has Kidd decided to join the scorpions?
(a) To infiltrate the group.
(b) He is bored.
(c) To spite Lanya.
(d) They make life easier for Kidd.

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

4. What would Lanya like to name her harmonica solo?
(a) Broken.
(b) Diffraction.
(c) Crazed.
(d) Indifference.

5. What have many of the characters discovered?
(a) That they want to escape Bellona.
(b) How to act like they have a normal city.
(c) How to live without certain necessities.
(d) Some kind of routine amongst the chaos.

Short Answer Questions

1. Does Kidd seem to sincerely care about Lanya?

2. What dominates a lot of the scorpions conversation?

3. When Kidd learns about the memory lapse, how does he react?

4. Why does Lanya become upset with the rest of the scorpions?

5. What is this section of the book like?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why do Edward and Kidd both decide to join the scorpions?

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

6. Who starts many of the riots, and what do we learn about the scorpions because of this?

7. As the book is drawing to a close, what does Kidd have trouble understanding?

8. Suddenly, what does Kidd have trouble remembering?

9. Why are the scorpions moving again?

10. Why is this chapter difficult to understand?

(see the answer keys)

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