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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. How many days is one day on Venus equal to on Earth, according to Moth?
(a) 62.
(b) 8.
(c) 243.
(d) 904.

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

3. What does the Hoodoo man build a miniature model of in Moth's story?
(a) The sun.
(b) The mountain range.
(c) The plantation.
(d) The park.

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

5. What does Sani say Moth is like in Part IV?
(a) A book.
(b) A coffee pot.
(c) A kaleidoscope.
(d) A flute.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of Sani's favorite songs?

2. How does Sani feel when he and Moth reach the Reservation in Part IV?

3. Where does Sani first tell Moth his creation story?

4. What does Moth imagine hers and Sani's Summer Song is like to them as they sleep?

5. Where does Moth say she hides the key to Sani's mind?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Sani think Moth will definitely do in Part III, a prophecy she denies?

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

4. Why does Sani tell Moth his father and mother separated?

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

6. What does Moth tell Sani the ancestors gave her in answer to her prayers?

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

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

9. What does Moth's grandfather once tell her about her story?

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

(see the answer keys)

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