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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Moth feel compelled to let go of Sani's hand in Part III?
(a) She is sweaty.
(b) She needs to dance.
(c) She feels faint.
(d) It makes her heart beat too fast to hold it.

2. What is the only place in the U.S. where four state lines meet?
(a) The Quarter Mile.
(b) Four Corners.
(c) The Windguard.
(d) Hellion's Way.

3. What was like a fire hearth, according to Sani?
(a) Venus.
(b) The Sun.
(c) The Moon.
(d) The North Star.

4. What does Sani's father say when he sees Sani?
(a) He needs to exercise.
(b) He needs to eat.
(c) His hair is shorter but his eyes are brighter.
(d) He has missed Sani.

5. Where did Moth's grandfather bury the picture, the feather, and the hair?
(a) In Sani's father's forest.
(b) Under the willow in the cemetery.
(c) In the loamy soil on the riverbank.
(d) In Aunt Jack's backyard.

6. Which world do the First Man and First Woman end up settling on in Sani's creation story?
(a) The Tenth World.
(b) The Fourth World.
(c) The Eighth World.
(d) The First World.

7. What does Sani tell Moth his people think about ghosts?
(a) They can make you want to die.
(b) They can discourage you from eating.
(c) They can cling tightly to you.
(d) They can help you through your troubles.

8. Where does Sani tell Moth his father brought him when he was young in Part III?
(a) The Yellowstone National Park.
(b) The Highland Trail on the Smokey Mountains.
(c) The Nashville Historical Center.
(d) Fort Smith National Historic Site in Arkansas.

9. How many worlds are in Sani's creation story?
(a) 3.
(b) 10.
(c) 4.
(d) 8.

10. What does Sani whisper to Moth in Part II that matches, somehow, between them?
(a) Their thumprints.
(b) Their breath.
(c) Their earrings.
(d) Their hair.

11. What does Sani tell Moth she reminds him of?
(a) That he need to quit smoking.
(b) How hard it is to pray.
(c) What a real dancer looks like.
(d) How nice sound can taste.

12. What happens to the Third World in Sani's creation story?
(a) Nothing - it is a perfect world.
(b) The Holy People set fire to it.
(c) A Water Monster floods it.
(d) The Holy People set terrible storms on it.

13. What does Moth use during her morning ritual every day, even on her road trip with Sani?
(a) Her toe shoes.
(b) Her journal.
(c) Her radio.
(d) The box of roots from her grandfather.

14. Why does Moth tell Sani she wants him to stay awake?
(a) She does not like closing her eyes herself.
(b) She does not want him to have bad dreams.
(c) She wants him to sing with her.
(d) She wants him to hear his phone if it rings.

15. Where does Moth see another tattoo of Five Finger grass on Sani's body?
(a) His back.
(b) His leg.
(c) His foot.
(d) His arm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sani teach Moth to do when they make stops on their road trip?

2. What is the first sense of home Moth realizes she has felt in almost two years?

3. Where do Moth and Sani stop that reminds Moth powerfully of her mother?

4. What does Moth imagine Thomas Jefferson had?

5. What does Moth tell Sani when he tells her he does not know how to be whole anymore?

(see the answer keys)

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