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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. Where does Anka say she plans to move after the Matt assault?
(a) The Morristown estate.
(b) The Tranquility house.
(c) The DJD house.
(d) The Stayfree house.

2. According to Matt, the human body is about what percentage of water?
(a) 60%.
(b) 90%.
(c) 70%.
(d) 80%.

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

4. 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) Simile.
(b) Assonance.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Alliteration.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The headquarters of the CHA are in a former commercial building called what?

2. Jazz says that she has been smoking since she was how old?

3. What is the name of the locksmith who arrives to change the locks at the Nicotine house?

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

5. Whose sounds of lovemaking wakes Penny up in the middle of the night when she is sleeping in Rob's room?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where are Jazz's housemates when Matt first comes to see her? What do they do?

2. What are "the Tombs" and how does Penny end up there?

3. Why do Rob and Jazz (along with Penny) go to the DJD for a week?

4. Why does Penny go to the DJD to sleep? How is this setting described?

5. What feelings does Tony express about Penny at the TTIP rally?

6. What types of foods do the inhabitants of Nicotine eat? Where do they procure their food?

7. In what squatter house does Penny end up living? Why?

8. What is revealed about Matt's relationship with Amalia in the course of the narrative?

9. How does Penny learn about the conflict with Matt at Nicotine?

10. Where do Rob, Sorry, and Jazz stay in Taos? Why?

(see the answer keys)

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