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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 does Moth think the suburbs sound like?
(a) Death.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Music.
(d) Crickets.

2. What does Moth replace the thing she takes from Aunt Jack without asking for?
(a) John the Conqueror Root.
(b) A paperweight.
(c) Ice cream.
(d) Tic Tacs.

3. Who is one of the first people to directly speak to Moth in years?
(a) Hopi.
(b) Ashley.
(c) Frieda.
(d) Sani.

4. What does Moth say her grandfather is in Part I?
(a) A rootworker.
(b) A Medicine Man.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) A priest.

5. What does Moth tell Sani she does not have that he thinks is unusual?
(a) A hairband.
(b) A closet.
(c) A phone.
(d) A backpack.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Moth want to do soon after Aunt Jack leaves?

2. Which ballerina does Moth look up to?

3. Who sometimes physically abuses Sani?

4. What does Moth say names sometimes outgrow a person like?

5. What does Moth take from Aunt Jack without asking?

Short Essay Questions

1. What would Moth rather be than being too perfect?

2. What does Moth articulate as the significance of names, in general, in Part I?

3. What does Moth's grandfather use for the finding spell?

4. Why does Moth say deadness does not bother her?

5. What is impossible for even the greatest rootworkers to do, according to Moth?

6. What were moths originally attracted to before lightbulbs or flames, according to Moth?

7. Why does Sani smash his guitar at Moth's house in Part II?

8. Why does Moth think she might not hate this coming summer as much as she has hated the past two?

9. Why is Sani mad at his mother in Part II?

10. In Part II, what is Moth's dominant emotion as school ends and the summer just begins after Aunt Jack leaves?

(see the answer keys)

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