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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 can the Angel Phil cure?
(a) AIDS.
(b) Smallpox.
(c) Measles.
(d) Dropsy.

2. How old was Sweetie's mother when she gave birth to Sweetie?
(a) 42.
(b) 29.
(c) 53.
(d) 35.

3. What does Eddy say his book is basically an argument against?
(a) Murder.
(b) Oppression.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Suicide.

4. The Angel Phil is the seventh Olympic spirit of what?
(a) The oceans.
(b) The sun.
(c) The moon.
(d) The stars.

5. On what date did Cedar witness her first "gravid female detention" at a mall parking lot in Part I (73)?
(a) June 1.
(b) August 25.
(c) May 30.
(d) September 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Phil earn an advanced degree in at the University of Minnesota?

2. How far along in her pregnancy does Cedar say she is in the opening of Part I?

3. Where did Eddy go to college for his undergraduate degree?

4. What can the Angel Phil change all metals into?

5. When Mother first appears to Cedar, Cedar describes her face as being round and white like what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the significance of Sera eating a hot dog?

3. When and where does the title of the novel appear in the narrative? What does it refer to?

4. What did Eddy study in college? Where did he study?

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

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

7. How are Cedar's adoptive parents described?

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

9. What information do Eddy and Sweetie reveal when they tap on Cedar's window in Part I?

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

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