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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 does Ellen Cherry do to make up for her failed celebration with Boomer?
(a) Throw away her easle.
(b) Make Boomer's favorite breakfast.
(c) Have sex with Boomer.
(d) Clean the Turkey.

2. Who do the objects send to follow Turn Around Norman?
(a) Spoon.
(b) Conch Shell.
(c) Painted Stick.
(d) Dirty Sock.

3. Why does Ellen Cherry Charles leave art school?
(a) Her father and uncle drag her out of class.
(b) She feels that it is too stuck up.
(c) Her parents refuse to keep paying for it.
(d) She wants to make art about life not school.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who brings the Airstream turkey?

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

3. Who destroys the temple?

4. What event keeps being repeated at the I & I?

5. Who compares the American cowboy to the samurai?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the relationship between the first veil that is revealed and the actions of the novel so far?

4. What do we learn about Ellen Cherry in the first few sections of the novel?

5. Describe Turn Around Norman's Activity. How is it important in the novel?

6. Why does Boomer turn an airstream into a Turkey?

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

8. Dirty Sock seems to the be the only one of the objects who takes on a particular human's personality. Whose personality does Dirty Sock usurp and do you think this is significant in some way?

9. Why do you think that Ellen Cherry wants Boomer to call her "Jezebel" when they are intimate?

10. What do you think Robbins is saying by personifying objects and having them secretly move?

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