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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Penny read when she goes to try and sleep at the DJD house?
(a) The Odyssey.
(b) The Master and Margarita.
(c) The Illiad.
(d) The End of Times.

2. Where does Patrick say he is currently when he responds to Penny's email regarding his mother?
(a) Taos.
(b) Los Alamos.
(c) Santa Cruz.
(d) Mindanao.

3. Who says of the squatters in the Nicotine house, "It's like having bedbugs that do the dishes" (138)?
(a) Penny.
(b) Patrick.
(c) Rob.
(d) Matt.

4. What gifts does Matt bring to Jazz when he sees her alone while her roommates are at the protest?
(a) Whiskey and cigarettes.
(b) Daisies and red wine.
(c) Champagne and focaccia bread.
(d) Roses and a box of chocolate.

5. How does Matt enter the Nicotine house in the middle of the night when he cannot sleep?
(a) He picks the lock.
(b) He shoots open the door.
(c) He kicks in the door.
(d) He breaking in a back window.

6. Who books a hotel room for the former Nicotine inhabitants on their second night of flight?
(a) Sorry.
(b) Jazz.
(c) Rob.
(d) Penny.

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

8. 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.

9. What was the profession of Matt and Patrick's mother when she met Norm?
(a) Travel agent.
(b) Investment banker.
(c) Actress.
(d) Food vendor.

10. What does Tony take to Amalia as a hostess gift when he first visits her?
(a) A bouquet of roses.
(b) A tobacco plant.
(c) A bottle of wine.
(d) A toaster oven.

11. What does Anka plan to do about smoking at the DJD?
(a) Chewing.
(b) Going across the street.
(c) Vaping.
(d) Quitting.

12. Where did Sunshine attend college?
(a) Dartmouth.
(b) NYU.
(c) Penn State.
(d) Yale.

13. What does Sorry say the final destination is for her, Rob, and Jazz when she calls Penny from a motel near St. Louis?
(a) Spokane.
(b) San Diego.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Santa Fe.

14. When Jazz calls Penny from Oklahoma, she tells her that the money she has now is from what last job?
(a) Waitressing at a coffee shop.
(b) Selling cars in Brooklyn.
(c) Stripping.
(d) Waitressing on a cruise ship.

15. 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 he did not make out a will.
(c) Because his ex-wife has contested the will.
(d) Because her mother was not adopted.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Amalia describe her wedding to Norm when asked by Penny?

2. How many buckets of excrement are loaded from the Nicotine house into Matt's garbage truck after the demolition crew empties it?

3. What is the new destination that Sorry, Rob, and Jazz agree on as they leave Oklahoma?

4. What does Rob buy with the $50 he won from the nicotine bet?

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

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