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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Jay put as his fake name at the gay bar?
(a) Maylene Rabel.
(b) Dollie Parton.
(c) Truvy Jones.
(d) Cher.

2. What did Hough do as a weekly occurrence in the family that a similar tradition in the Air Force reminded her of?
(a) Group sports.
(b) Ice skating.
(c) Group singing.
(d) Eating a lavish meal together.

3. What did Hough's roommate say about her when police questioned him during the investigation into the torching of her car?
(a) She was fantastic.
(b) She never talked to anyone.
(c) She was a liar.
(d) She was often violent.

4. What did Mikey and Hough routinely send to one another?
(a) Books.
(b) Clothes.
(c) Records.
(d) Food.

5. What did Hough hide in a hole in her mattress while living as a child in Switzerland?
(a) A record player.
(b) A ring.
(c) A racy book.
(d) A radio.

6. What major international event happened shortly after Hough moved to Washington D.C.?
(a) The 9/11 attacks.
(b) The start of the Iraq War.
(c) The attacks at the 2002 Olympics.
(d) The Indian Ocean Tsunami.

7. What did people in the cult sometimes do that Hough knew, early on, was not real?
(a) Fight.
(b) Levitate.
(c) Speak in tongues.
(d) Defect.

8. What did Hough's parents sometimes do when they were short on cash?
(a) Sell candles they had made.
(b) Sell honey.
(c) Go to a bar to play pool and hustle customers.
(d) Gamble.

9. What did Hough's old roommate Eric say at her trial that Hough knew made her look very bad?
(a) She borrowed his gas can a few weeks earlier.
(b) She often talked about leaving the Air Force.
(c) She always seemed to be in trouble with the police.
(d) She talked about having committed insurance fraud before.

10. What was the name of the cult Hough was raised in?
(a) The Children of God.
(b) The Many.
(c) The Chosen Few.
(d) The Glorious.

11. What was the cult leader's main mode of communication by 1972?
(a) Bullhorn to the crowd.
(b) What he called psychic waves.
(c) Edicts he called Mo Letters.
(d) Text messages.

12. How did Hough feel after securing her first rented room in D.C. in Part II?
(a) She fell in love quickly.
(b) She was very nervous.
(c) She worked around the clock.
(d) She slept like she had been away for months.

13. When did Hough and her family move back to Texas after being in the cult, in Part I?
(a) Right after her seventh birthday.
(b) Immediately following the 9/11 attacks.
(c) Around the time she turned ten.
(d) Right after the Cold War ended.

14. What was one thing Hough liked about bouncing?
(a) Being able to hit people and fight.
(b) Being able to drink heavily at work.
(c) Being able to miss work with little consequence.
(d) Getting paid well.

15. What does Hough write that she often does when people ask where she is from?
(a) Lies to them in different ways.
(b) Tells them she was born in Berlin but moved to Rome shortly afterwards.
(c) Tells them the truth.
(d) Tells them she is an orphan and that she has two sisters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one second job that Hough took while working at Badlands?

2. Where did Hough get a job in Part II?

3. What did Hough and her siblings call the cult she was raised in as a sort of nickname?

4. What did Hough like about the fact that both her parents were in town for her trial?

5. What was the only publication Hough could name in Part II, due to her grandmother's subscription to it?

(see the answer keys)

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