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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. In what month is Chapter 66 set?
(a) September.
(b) July.
(c) May.
(d) March.

2. What does Robbins write is now a roadside zoo in Chapter 95?
(a) Canada.
(b) Timbuktu.
(c) Tijuana.
(d) New York.

3. Who is recuperating in the hospital at the end of the novel?
(a) Sissy.
(b) Jellybean.
(c) The Chink.
(d) Julian.

4. What do the Professor and observer request to do to one of the whooping cranes in Chapter 94?
(a) Mate it.
(b) Alter it.
(c) Stun it.
(d) Kill it.

5. In what year did the Chink move to the shack west of the Great Burrow?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1951.

Short Answer Questions

1. Robbins writes in Chapter 95, "To the extent that this world surrenders its richness and diversity, it surrenders its" what?

2. In Chapter 80, Robbins writes that the Secretary of the Interior was what kind of man?

3. The Chink tells Sissy in Chapter 110 to not confuse symmetry with what?

4. Dr. Robbins believes that the central problem facing the human race is what?

5. Who is dreaming about her diabetic mother in the beginning of Chapter 77?

Short Essay Questions

1. When does Sissy return to New York in Part Four, and what does she find upon her arrival?

2. What are society's standards regarding Sissy's relationships with Jellybean and the Chink?

3. In Part Five, when does the Countess visit, and what does he have to say to Sissy about the whopping cranes?

4. Describe the Chink's relationship with the Clock People as Sissy relates it in Part Four to Dr. Robbins.

5. What is the state of Sissy at the end of the novel? What are her plans for the future?

6. What leads to Sissy's assault of the Countess in Part Five? How does it take place?

7. What does Robbins (the author) assert happened to the power of women in civilization over time? How does he represent through Sissy's story?

8. How does Sissy feel to be back on the ranch in Part Five?

9. What does Dr. Goldman decide after Sissy's evaluation in Part Four?

10. What is Robbins representing symbolically by the confrontations of Sissy in Part Five, with the Countess and Julian?

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