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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 Sani sing is against he and Moth as they ride to South Carolina?
(a) The adults.
(b) The clocks.
(c) The roads.
(d) The night.

2. Where does Sani first tell Moth his creation story?
(a) The mountain trail.
(b) The first campsite.
(c) The lake.
(d) Motel #1.

3. Where does Moth say she hides the key to Sani's mind?
(a) In her chest.
(b) In her sock.
(c) In her mouth.
(d) In her diary.

4. What does Sani say he is like in Part IV?
(a) A broken pipe.
(b) The sun.
(c) A smashed guitar.
(d) Chipped china.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did some people do with photos of the burning bodies of Black people in the Old South, according to Moth's grandfather?

2. What do the Holy People do to the First World in Sani's story?

3. What color is the Second World in Sani's creation story?

4. What comes into the house in Moth's story along with the mosquitoes?

5. Where do Moth and Sani go swimming together?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does kissing Sani fee like to Moth above all other wonderful things?

2. What does Sani tell Moth he will do for this one summer with her?

3. What type of moth does Moth say knows it is the prettiest and is huge in size? What is ironic about this moth?

4. What is one major thing Moth's grandfather taught her about the South?

5. What does Moth see in Sani's room at his father's house that startles her terribly?

6. What does Moth wonder about Sani in terms of the kind of (metaphorical) light he emits?

7. Why does the Water Monster in Sani's Third World rain such sadness?

8. What does Sani's father implore him to do in Part IV, he says, for his own good?

9. What are both Moth's and Sani's favorite lyric from "Summer Song" in Part IV?

10. What is special about the Fourth World in Sani's story?

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