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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Lil and Al obtain their freakish children?
(a) The children are dropped off at the circus by frightened parents.
(b) Lil and Al adopt unwanted children from orphanages.
(c) The children are scientifically created in test tubes.
(d) Lil experiments with drugs during her pregnancies.

2. What is on display in the Chute?
(a) The awards that the Binewski children have won.
(b) The Binewski children who have died.
(c) The scientific directions for how each Binewski child was created.
(d) Photographs of the Binewski children throughout their childhoods.

3. What is Vern Bogner's emotional state when he arrives at the shopping station?
(a) Apapthetic.
(b) Nervous.
(c) Frustrated.
(d) Excited.

4. What is the name of the establishment where Miranda works?
(a) The Paper Castle.
(b) The Glass House.
(c) The Slippery Rock.
(d) The Dark Horse.

5. What is Arty's birth defect?
(a) He has flippers instead of hands and feet.
(b) He was born with a tail.
(c) He is an albino hunchback.
(d) He has no birth defect.

6. How does Arty repay Zephr McGurk for the work he does on the show?
(a) He pays Zephr in cash.
(b) He gives Zephr women.
(c) He fires Zephr.
(d) He mutliates Zephr.

7. What are the followers of the new religion called?
(a) The Geeks.
(b) The Admitted.
(c) The Chosen.
(d) The Freaks.

8. Who finds the Binewski children hiding in a cherry tree?
(a) Crystal Lil.
(b) Miss Lick.
(c) Children from town.
(d) A farmer from town.

9. In order to make the task even more difficult for Chick to complete, what is the only tool that Arty allows him to use?
(a) Recycled items found on the circus grounds.
(b) His telekinesis.
(c) His imagination.
(d) His hands.

10. What is Oly's birth defect?
(a) She is an albino hunchback.
(b) She is a Siamese twin.
(c) She has no birth defect.
(d) She has flippers instead of hands and feet.

11. What is the name of the new religion introduced in the middle of the novel?
(a) Binewskism.
(b) Freakism.
(c) Arturism.
(d) Geekism.

12. Who is the first Binewski child to earn their own van?
(a) Oly.
(b) Iphigenia.
(c) Arty.
(d) Chick.

13. Even though Oly spends most of her adulthood in hiding, what does she do spontaneously that seems out of character?
(a) She puts on a strip show at the club where Miranda works.
(b) She critiques Miranda's pastries.
(c) She pretends to drown at the pool where Miranda is a lifeguard.
(d) She jumps into the giant cat cage to save Miranda.

14. Miranda reveals that she has recently been approached by a woman named Miss Lick with an interesting offer to make money. What does Miranda have to do in this deal?
(a) Have her tail removed.
(b) Spy on Crystal Lil.
(c) Perform as a Geek in the circus.
(d) Research the history of the Binewski family.

15. When Chick's power is realized, whose reaction does Oly worry about?
(a) Horst the Cat Man's.
(b) Arty's.
(c) Crystal Lil's.
(d) Elly and Iphy's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chick explains to Arty that he can feel things that normal people cannot. What is one thing that Chick says he can feel?

2. What sport does Oly take up in order to get closer to Miss Lick?

3. What does Arty begin predicting in his act in an attempt to draw larger crowds?

4. What is Miranda's birth defect?

5. Who is Miranda?

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