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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. Which of the scorpions tends to cause a lot of trouble and fights?
(a) Copperhead.
(b) Pinky.
(c) Bunny.
(d) Pepper.

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

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

4. What primarily makes up this chapter?
(a) Words in another language.
(b) Drawings.
(c) Journal entries and letters.
(d) Writings to an editor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Madame Brown offer to help Kidd?

2. While walking to Lanya's school, who do they see?

3. Later, at the bar, what is everyone discussing?

4. What does Tak ask of Kidd that flatters Kidd?

5. Why does Denny have to describe the new place in which he, Kidd and all the scorpions are living to Kidd?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Suddenly, what does Kidd have trouble remembering?

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

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

5. Why is Edward probably frightened to leave Bellona?

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

7. All of the residents are wondering what is happening in the sky. How do they work to find a solution?

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

9. How does Kidd finally feel when he attempts to write a new poem?

10. How has Lanya and Kidd's relationship changed?

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