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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 new piece of art does Boomer create?
(a) A bicycle fashioned into a giant bug.
(b) A spy coat with 500 pockets.
(c) A Warhol-esque can of beans sculpture.
(d) A guitar that repeatedly played "I Walk the Line" by itself.

2. When Boomer Petway is in high school, he is the best at what?
(a) Breakdancing.
(b) Acting.
(c) Football.
(d) Track and field.

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

4. Why does Boomer think that Ellen Cherry "can't be married to a man"?
(a) Because she only cares about herself.
(b) Because she's married to her art.
(c) Because she's contemptuous.
(d) Because she's jealous.

5. What name does Ellen Cherry Charles' father call her?
(a) Jezebel.
(b) Magdalene.
(c) Cinderella.
(d) Puss in Boots.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Boomer picks Ellen Cherry up in the Turkey, where do they go?

2. How is Colonial Pines described?

3. What does Roland Abu Hadee inherit from his father?

4. What is Ellen Cherry's job in New York?

5. What happens to Spoon?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do we learn about Buddy and Verlin when they forcefully remove Ellen Cherry from her art class?

2. Do you see any irony in Salome's determination only to do the Dance of the Seven Veils if she can have John the Baptist's head on a platter? Why or why not?

3. What do we learn about Patsy, Ellen Cherry's mother in the section called "The First Veil"?

4. What are some ways you can interpret Boomer's spy coat sculpture in which he declares his love for Ellen Cherry in a 500 different encoded messages?

5. The first line in this section is "the pendulum swung yet again." It is referring to Can 'o Beans account of religious history. What does this suggest about religion?

6. What do we learn about Boomer Petway in the first few sections of the novel?

7. Describe Ellen Cherry and Boomer's relationship since he's become an well-known artist.

8. Describe the sculpture that Boomer is bringing to Jerusalem to reassemble.

9. Describe Abu Hadee's history, as it's recounted in "The Fourth Veil"?

10. What does Robbins say about religion at the end of the Fourth Veil?

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