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

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

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

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

5. What is the place called where Sorry and Penny are taken after their arrests during the protest?
(a) The Gutter.
(b) The Tombs.
(c) The River.
(d) The A train.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from the novel refers to the branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being?

2. Where does Anka describe the free AIDS conference to Penny that evening when she sees her at the laundromat?

3. 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?

4. Whose house do Sorry, Jazz, and Rob go to in Taos?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jazz justify her relationship with Matt when she first tells Penny about it?

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

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

4. What happens when the locksmith arrives at Nicotine?

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

6. Where does Penny get a job? What is the job and how does she feel about it?

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

8. What does Amalia discover when she first goes to Nicotine?

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

10. What does the Norman Baker Center refer to?

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