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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. What does a neighbor do to Matt's car when he comes to board up the door at the Nicotine house?
(a) He lights it on fire.
(b) He backs into it.
(c) He kicks it.
(d) He urinates on it.

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

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?
(a) Because her mother was not adopted.
(b) Because his ex-wife has contested the will.
(c) Because her parents never legally married.
(d) Because he did not make out a will.

4. After about how many hours are Penny and Sorry released after their arrest during the protest?
(a) 23.
(b) 12.
(c) 19.
(d) 6.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How is Amalia's car described when she arrives at Nicotine house?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens when the locksmith arrives at Nicotine?

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

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

5. To what issue does Sorry attribute her smoking?

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

7. What does the Norman Baker Center refer to?

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

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

10. What happens when Matt kicks in the door of Nicotine?

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