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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 is obviously missing?
(a) The clowns.
(b) The cotton candy.
(c) The funhouse.
(d) The rest of the circus.

2. What does Punch really want from Jimmy in return?
(a) He wants to be accepted into the family.
(b) He wants Jimmy to acknowledge his heritage.
(c) He wants him to kill Virgilio.
(d) He wants him to go to jail.

3. How many Vivacemente circuses does he claim to own?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Five.

4. Why does Beezo tell Jimmy and Lorrie he wants Andy?
(a) To give him another chance at fatherhood.
(b) To replace the son he lost when Punch went to jail.
(c) To make them pay for Punch's injuries.
(d) To turn him into the greatest clown alive.

5. How many in total work with Konrad as he breaks the law?
(a) Three others.
(b) One other.
(c) Four others.
(d) Two others.

Short Answer Questions

1. After a month passes, what comes up that they see as an omen?

2. What languages does Punchinello learn in prison?

3. What does the boy try to give Jimmy?

4. What does he tell his frightened girls?

5. How did Konrad use Sydactyly to torment Virgilio?

Short Essay Questions

1. What positive impact has prison had on Punchinello?

2. How does Jimmy finally overcome Beezo?

3. What fills Jimmy with a sense of foreboding?

4. What is so significant about the gunman's identity?

5. How is Jimmy able to overcome his fear and propel himself into action?

6. How does Beezo manage to so completely fool Lorrie and Jimmy?

7. How does Punchinello first respond to the request for a kidney for Annie?

8. Why does Punchinello sometimes wonder if he's real?

9. After Jimmy's family arrives, and police deputies are standing guard, what phone call does Jimmy get?

10. What happens that helps Jimmy and Lorrie to move on with their lives?

(see the answer keys)

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