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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Penny tell Jazz that if the family did probate, she, her mother, Patrick, and Matt would each receive equal shares of her father's estate?
(a) Because her parents never legally married.
(b) Because her mother was not adopted.
(c) Because he did not make out a will.
(d) Because his ex-wife has contested the will.

2. What literary device is used in the following sentence from the novel: "An all-white man in an all-black car, like a grub in a rotten pecan" (192)?
(a) Assonance.
(b) Simile.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Metaphor.

3. How does Amalia describe her wedding to Norm when asked by Penny?
(a) It was a hippie wedding.
(b) It was a traditional Catholic wedding.
(c) It was a traditional Kogi wedding.
(d) It was a traditional Jewish wedding.

4. Whose memoirs is Jazz reading when Rob goes to check in with her the morning after Sorry and Penny are released?
(a) Henry David Thoreau's.
(b) James Joyce's.
(c) Robert Blake's.
(d) Jean Cocteau's.

5. Whose sounds of lovemaking wakes Penny up in the middle of the night when she is sleeping in Rob's room?
(a) Sorry and Anka's.
(b) Matt and Jazz's.
(c) Tony and Sorry's.
(d) Tony and Jazz's.

6. Where does Rob park his minivan for the TTIP protest?
(a) Bowery Street.
(b) Houston Street.
(c) Broadway.
(d) Wall Street.

7. How many buckets of excrement are loaded from the Nicotine house into Matt's garbage truck after the demolition crew empties it?
(a) 12.
(b) 19.
(c) 52.
(d) 36.

8. Who was injured in the activist event that led to Sorry and Penny's arrest?
(a) Teffie.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Amelia.
(d) Susannah.

9. How do the inhabitants of the Nicotine house obtain most of their food?
(a) Robbing neighborhood homes.
(b) Shoplifting.
(c) Dumpster diving.
(d) Begging on the streets.

10. What percentage of trash is made up of air, according to Matt?
(a) 88%.
(b) 92%.
(c) 56%.
(d) 98%.

11. What does Rob buy with the $50 he won from the nicotine bet?
(a) A book.
(b) A pack of cigarettes.
(c) A bag of groceries.
(d) A bottle of bourbon.

12. Where does Patrick say he believes Norm adopted Amalia?
(a) Peru.
(b) South Africa.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Columbia.

13. What word from the novel refers to speaking or acting in an evasive way?
(a) Gregarious.
(b) Prevarication.
(c) Interdisciplinary.
(d) Gusticular.

14. What information does Penny reveal about Patrick to her mother when she visits after the AIDS conference?
(a) He is engaged.
(b) He is pansexual.
(c) He is moving home.
(d) He is anxious.

15. Where do some of the members of the Nicotine house go to detox from smoking as part of a bet?
(a) The Stayfree house.
(b) The Morristown estate.
(c) The DJD house.
(d) The Tranquility house.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Sunshine attend college?

2. What weapon does Jazz bring to the hotel for Matt to use?

3. What does Penny read when she goes to try and sleep at the DJD house?

4. What does Tony take to Amalia as a hostess gift when he first visits her?

5. What kind of pornography service is Tony said to subscribe to?

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