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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ellen Cherry notice about her apartment after the detective is there?
(a) Her window is shut.
(b) Her drawers are all emptied.
(c) Her phone cords are cut.
(d) She can't find Spoon.

2. What part of the belly dancer's body represents the first veil that is removed in her Dance of the Seven Veils?
(a) Stomach.
(b) Throat.
(c) Face.
(d) Pelvic region.

3. What does Ellen Cherry decide is the root of Buddy's "hankering for apocalypse"?
(a) Cruelty.
(b) Loneliness.
(c) Religious fervor.
(d) Vanity.

4. What does Spoon do to prove her locomotion to the other objects in Ellen Cherry's drawer?
(a) Jump out of the drawer.
(b) Pick up the underwear.
(c) Cartwheels.
(d) Dance.

5. Why does Turn Around Norman stop performing?
(a) Ellen Cherry's disappearance disturbs him.
(b) He is sick.
(c) He, like Ellen Cherry, gives up art.
(d) Buddy and other preachers are taking up the space.

6. Who dies at the end of the Sixth Veil?
(a) Spike.
(b) Ultima.
(c) Patsy.
(d) Verlin.

7. Which objects are picked up by Buddy in the Seventh Veil?
(a) Painted Stick and Spoon.
(b) Dirty Sock and Conch Shell.
(c) Conch Shell and Painted Stick.
(d) Can 'o Beans and Spoon.

8. What removes Ellen Cherry's feeling of guilt about sleeping with Spike?
(a) That Ultima goes to Jerusalem to visit Boomer.
(b) She paints it.
(c) Patsy tells her that sex in marriage is as normal as bread.
(d) Boomer sends her a letter saying he sleeps with Ultima.

9. Where does Can 'o Beans end up?
(a) In front of Boomer's statue.
(b) With Buddy.
(c) In the Dome of the Rock with Painted Stick and Conch Shell.
(d) Back with Ellen Cherry.

10. Who does Painted Stick strike?
(a) Buddy.
(b) Ellen Cherry.
(c) Spike.
(d) Turn Around Norman.

11. Who sends flowers to Ellen Cherry and signs it "the Master of Disguise"?
(a) Patsy.
(b) Raoul.
(c) Spike.
(d) Boomer.

12. Who protects Spoon as she finds her way back to the Cathedral?
(a) Can 'o Beans.
(b) Dirty Sock.
(c) Conch Shell.
(d) Painted Stick.

13. What is Boomer's final gift to Ellen Cherry?
(a) The Turkey.
(b) Spoon.
(c) A portrait of her.
(d) Can 'o Beans.

14. How does Painted Stick move quickly?
(a) He hops as if on one leg.
(b) He vibrates so rapidly that he is propelled almost above the ground.
(c) He spins from end to end like a wheel.
(d) He rolls longways.

15. To what does Abu attribute the frequent accomplishments of the Jews?
(a) Their focus on the present instead of the afterlife.
(b) Sheer luck.
(c) Their work ethic.
(d) Their innate sense of mathematics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a matter of tradition for the Belly Dancer?

2. What season is it when Salome joins the band at the I & I?

3. How does Ellen Cherry characterize the new belly dancer?

4. What is realization associated with the seventh veil?

5. Who comes to Buddy's apartment the night he is supposed to leave for Jerusalem?

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