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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 is Boomer Petway's trade?
(a) Auto mechanic.
(b) Electrician.
(c) Welder.
(d) Plumber.
2. The only time we see Buddy at home, what is he doing that is unusual for him?
(a) Playing cards.
(b) Reading a book.
(c) Consulting the bible.
(d) Talking on the phone.
3. Who offers to display Ellen Cherry's painting?
(a) The I & I.
(b) The Guggenheim.
(c) The Museum of Modern Art.
(d) Her apartment building.
4. Where do the objects hide when they get to Manhattan?
(a) Ellen Cherry's apartment.
(b) A cathedral.
(c) A gas station.
(d) The I & I.
5. Who mends Can 'o Beans with a welding torch?
(a) Dirty Sock.
(b) Boomer.
(c) Painted Stick.
(d) Spoon.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where is Ellen Cherry in the section of the book called The Fourth Veil?
2. What is Spike's birth name?
3. How is the ancient observatory, where Conch Shell and Painted Stick live, funded?
4. What is the third veil?
5. What happens to Spike Cohen?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do you think is significant about the fact that Boomer and Ellen Cherry wake up Painted Stick and Conch Shell?
2. At the end of this section, Buddy avoids getting a speeding ticket by using his saxophone voice and preaching to the police officer. Is this realistic and why do you think Robbins includes it in the story?
3. Why do you think that Ellen Cherry covers a nude portrait of Boomer with tongues?
4. 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?
5. Verlin, Patsy, and Buddy go to see a "miracle", which turns out to be nothing more than a shadow on a freezer. What does an incident like this seem to say about people's relationship to religion and mystery? Does it cast a reflection on Buddy's miracle?
6. All of the objects are given a gender except Can 'o Beans. Why is this significant?
7. The fifth veil has to do with removing the illusion of the value of money. Is money's value really an illusion? Explain why or why not.
8. What do we learn about Patsy, Ellen Cherry's mother in the section called "The First Veil"?
9. Why do you think that Ellen Cherry wants Boomer to call her "Jezebel" when they are intimate?
10. Why does Ellen Cherry give up her art?
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