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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the new destination that Sorry, Rob, and Jazz agree on as they leave Oklahoma?
(a) Santa Cruz.
(b) Oakland.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Alberta, Canada.

2. Who is the first inhabitant of the Nicotine house to read the note left on Matt's car from Amalia?
(a) Tony.
(b) Rob.
(c) Anka.
(d) Jazz.

3. Who pays Rob $50 for the bet about quitting nicotine use?
(a) Jazz.
(b) Penny.
(c) Amalia.
(d) Tony.

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

5. Where is Matt's office located?
(a) Jersey City.
(b) Somerset.
(c) Bayonne.
(d) Newark.

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

7. Who shoots the bucket when Matt attacks the inhabitants of the Nicotine house?
(a) Anka.
(b) Rob.
(c) Tony.
(d) Jazz.

8. On what floor does Matt live?
(a) The 5th floor.
(b) The 12th floor.
(c) The 40th floor.
(d) The 19th floor.

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

10. What artist recorded the song "In Your Eyes"?
(a) Madonna.
(b) Sinead O'Connor.
(c) Peter Gabriel.
(d) John Lennon.

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

12. Sorry laments the cost of cigarettes at the TTIP protest, saying they cost how much per pack?
(a) $13.
(b) $20.
(c) $15.
(d) $10.

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

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

15. What word from the novel refers to the branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being?
(a) Neuropathy.
(b) Oncology.
(c) Scientology.
(d) Ontology.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Matt, the human body is about what percentage of water?

2. What word from the novel refers to speaking or acting in an evasive way?

3. What does Sorry say the final destination is for her, Rob, and Jazz when she calls Penny from a motel near St. Louis?

4. Whose memoirs is Jazz reading when Rob goes to check in with her the morning after Sorry and Penny are released?

5. Where does Patrick say he believes Norm adopted Amalia?

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