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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. What was Kateri Tekakwitha's mother's name?
(a) Ardenta.
(b) Kahenta.
(c) Eleta.
(d) Serasota.

2. What are the names of Cedar's adoptive parents?
(a) Sweetie and Eddy.
(b) Glen and Sera.
(c) Roger and Julia.
(d) Adam and Mary.

3. What Russian novelist is Eddy's favorite?
(a) Pushkin.
(b) Dostoyevsky.
(c) Tolstoy.
(d) Nabokov.

4. What religious faith does Cedar associate with her adoptive parents?
(a) Protestantism.
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Islam.
(d) Catholicism.

5. From what narrative perspective is the novel related?
(a) First person.
(b) Third person.
(c) Fourth person.
(d) Second person.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cedar believe Eddy's book serves as for him?

2. What kind of earrings is Sweetie wearing when she meets Cedar?

3. What are the Angel Phil's teeth compared to in Part I?

4. What does Eddy often do?

5. What does "WV" refer to in the novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Cedar goes to her first ultrasound appointment in Part I?

2. What is supposedly happening genetically that is altering the world in the novel?

3. What is Eddy's book comprised of? How long is it when Cedar meets him?

4. Who is Saint Kateri Tekakwitha?

5. How is Little Mary described when her character is introduced?

6. What does Cedar stock up on in preparation for the apocalypse? Why?

7. Why is Cedar going to an Ojibwe reservation in Part I?

8. How is the situation described when Cedar witnesses her first accosting and detainment of a pregnant woman in Part I?

9. From what perspective and tense is the story related? How is the novel framed?

10. What publication does Cedar produce? What is its subject?

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