View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of animal is described by the narrator as "Turning modern technology to their idiosyncratic advantage"?
(a) Mockingbird.
(b) Dog.
(c) Squirrel.
(d) Eagle.

2. Why does Ellen Cherry need to work?
(a) Because Boomer leaves her.
(b) Because she is bored.
(c) Because she is robbed.
(d) Because she wants to interact with people.

3. Who sends Ellen Cherry flowers?
(a) Spike Cohen and Abu Hadee.
(b) Boomer.
(c) Turn Around Norman.
(d) Buddy.

4. According to Ellen Cherry, why do artists make art?
(a) To hold a conversation with artists from all times.
(b) To create what you want to see in the world that doesn't exist yet.
(c) To express their inner selves.
(d) As a spontaneous reaction to lived experience.

5. What does Ellen Cherry want to paint after she finishes painting mountains?
(a) Grotesque sinews of a bull carcase.
(b) A neon fox tongue licking up the powdered dust of angel bones.
(c) The firey resudue of blasted unicorn hooves in a volcano.
(d) A farm.

6. Who says that Buddy Winkler's look while preaching "Makes me feel like he wants to chew the elastic outta my underpants"?
(a) Verlin Charles.
(b) Patsy Charles.
(c) Boomer Petway.
(d) Ellen Cherry Charles.

7. What does Buddy tell Ellen Cherry she should do after seeing her at the I & I?
(a) Stop making art.
(b) Divorce Boomer.
(c) Sleep with him.
(d) Get back together with Boomer.

8. What is Boomer's compliment for Ellen Cherry's hair?
(a) Playful hair.
(b) Sexual hair.
(c) Bedroom hair.
(d) Artsy hair.

9. Where is Ellen Cherry in the section of the book called The Fourth Veil?
(a) Texas.
(b) New York.
(c) New Jersey.
(d) California.

10. How do Painted Stick and Conch Shell think Boomer and Ellen Cherry can help them?
(a) The can help them find their true master.
(b) They can give them the power of motion.
(c) They can help them get to Jerusalem.
(d) They can help them fall back to sleep.

11. What about Buddy attracts Ellen Cherry?
(a) His mouth.
(b) His clothes.
(c) His voice.
(d) His hands.

12. Who is attacked by a porcupine?
(a) Conch Shell.
(b) Can 'o Beans.
(c) Dirty Sock.
(d) Painted Stick.

13. What is Spike Cohen's fetish?
(a) Breasts.
(b) Sex toys.
(c) Feet.
(d) Wrists.

14. Who wakes up at the end of the First Veil?
(a) Painted Stick and Conch Shell.
(b) Boomer.
(c) Purple Rock and Twisted Pine.
(d) Ellen Cherry.

15. Who offers to display Ellen Cherry's painting?
(a) The Guggenheim.
(b) The I & I.
(c) Her apartment building.
(d) The Museum of Modern Art.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Patsy Charles attribute Ellen Cherry Charles' move to New York?

2. What things make Buddy doubt God?

3. Where is Painted Stick abandoned?

4. What does the barkeep say his sister sees after having a couple of drinks during the day?

5. What is Turn Around Norman's trick?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 540 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample