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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. In which neighborhood is Club Kalfour located?
(a) East Flatbush.
(b) Prospect Park South.
(c) Crown Heights.
(d) East New York.

2. Which of the following wind instruments does the band at Club Kalfour feature?
(a) Saxophone.
(b) Trombone.
(c) Clarinet.
(d) Trumpet.

3. Izzy asks Tee never to say which of the following again?
(a) Teeming pustule."
(b) "Turgid pustule."
(c) “Teeming buttload.”
(d) "Turgid buttload.

4. With which of the following does Chapter Fifteen begin?
(a) Later that night, Sierra stood frozen at the foot of Lázaro’s bed.
(b) “Run, Sierra!”
(c) Sierra had to peel her eyes away from the swirl of living paint.
(d) “What the hell?”

5. Which of the following is the first painted figure Robbie animates at Club Kalfour?
(a) A soldier.
(b) A skeleton.
(c) A dragon.
(d) A mermaid.

Short Answer Questions

1. With which of the following does Chapter Two begin?

2. Who hosts the first party of the summer, to which Bennie invites Sierra?

3. Which of the following sobriquets is used for Robbie?

4. Which of the following people does Sierra note depicted in her grandfather’s photographs?

5. How does the novel gloss the word “entiendes”?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the first corpuscule Sierra encounters described upon reaching the first party of the summer?

2. When had Sierra last rode on the pegs of Juan’s bicycle before the events of the novel?

3. How is the failure of people to see the changes to shadowshaped artwork explained?

4. At what does Sierra look as the novel begins, and what does she note about it?

5. What outfit is Sierra wearing when she leaves to attend the first party of the summer?

6. How is Bennie’s brother, Vincent, reported to have died, and when?

7. Sierra expresses annoyance at Robbie for leaving her at the first party of the summer. How does she tell him he can atone?

8. What does Sierra read in Wick’s notes that Lucera signifies?

9. What comment from Lázaro does Sierra read in Wick’s notes when she first peruses them near the beginning of Chapter Nine?

10. How is the Tower described when it is introduced?

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