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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Odd travels into the room what does he turn and see standing in the doorway?
(a) Bodachs.
(b) Elvis.
(c) Fungus Man.
(d) Himself.

2. Who is sitting in the passenger seat of the car in chapter fourteen when Odd returns from Robertson's house?
(a) Robertson.
(b) Stormy.
(c) Chief of police.
(d) Elvis.

3. Who does Odd go to see after leaving Robertson's house?
(a) Newspaper reporter.
(b) Terri.
(c) Chief Porter.
(d) Stormy.

4. What does the waitress, Viola, tell Odd she saw in her dream?
(a) She had been shot in the head and was dead.
(b) She had a knife in her back.
(c) She had her head cut off.
(d) She was drowning.

5. In Chapter 1 what does Odd say is the altar at which most people worship?
(a) Money.
(b) Fun Times.
(c) Fame.
(d) Love.

6. What does Odd say Elvis seems to be doing in Chapter 14 that worries Odd?
(a) Cutting himself.
(b) Dancing with an invisible woman.
(c) Arguing with himself.
(d) Singing to an invisible audience.

7. What does Odd speculate about what makes the room turn into the black room?
(a) There is no switch to start the room.
(b) The red eye in the black room is whatever controls the bodachs.
(c) The black room is a portal to another planet.
(d) It must really help with the cooling bill.

8. What do the cops find in Harlo's wallet when he is taken away by police?
(a) A few dollars and a passport.
(b) Pictures of Penny Kallisto.
(c) A letter to Penny's parents.
(d) Locks of Penny's hair soaked in blood.

9. What does Odd say he would do for Stormy if she asked, provided she had a good reason?
(a) Jump off a cliff.
(b) Walk the plank.
(c) Starve himself to death.
(d) Eat poison.

10. What does the police chief take when he first comes in the diner?
(a) Pepcid AC.
(b) A nitro tablet.
(c) A blood sugar pill.
(d) A beer.

11. What does Odd say bodachs seem to feed on and attracts them?
(a) Evil.
(b) Fear and disappointment.
(c) Death and violence.
(d) Hate and deceit.

12. What does the female character in Ozzie's books do that his editor had said would make no one interested in the book?
(a) Spits on old people.
(b) Abandons her children.
(c) Throws up after meals.
(d) Murders people.

13. What is the neighborhood called when Fungus Man drives to?
(a) Hard Luck.
(b) Hades Room.
(c) Camp's End.
(d) Gato Frito.

14. Although Terri is old enough to be Odd's mother what does Odd say she is not enough of to be his mother?
(a) Eccentric.
(b) Crazy.
(c) Drunk.
(d) Cruel.

15. What has Boone's cat done that makes Odd dislike him?
(a) Peed in Odd's shoes.
(b) Threw up on Odd's lap.
(c) Scratched Odd's legs.
(d) Pooped in Odd's coat.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 10 what does Odd say he would have said if he had been able to talk to the other him standing in the doorway of the room?

2. What does Odd say is the tallest building in Pico Mundo?

3. Why does Odd say that the dead don't talk?

4. What does Ozzie tell Odd to bring Stormy around to see?

5. In Chapter 5 what does Odd compare being a short order cook to?

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