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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 Newburg want with Armpit?
(a) To say they have found who cheated him.
(b) To tell him that he is a suspect in the scalping situation.
(c) To ask him the name of the scalper again.
(d) For him to come down to the station.

2. Where is Aileen during all the happenings?
(a) She is in the hospital.
(b) She is in jail.
(c) She is in her room in the hotel.
(d) She has disappeared.

3. What does Armpit order at a coffee shop?
(a) Plain coffee.
(b) Hot Chocolate.
(c) Cappuccino.
(d) Expresso.

4. What letters does Kaira talk about?
(a) Letters from her agent.
(b) Letters from her fans.
(c) Billy Boy letters.
(d) Letters from her father.

5. What is X-Ray prepared to do?
(a) Come clean with Newburg.
(b) Accept the consequences of his actions.
(c) Keep quiet.
(d) Leave town.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who interrupts El Genius' battering of Kaira?

2. What does Armpit's boss offer Armpit?

3. What does Kaira pay the cabbie to do?

4. Whom does Armpit's boss offer to hire?

5. What does Armpit do to Kaira's letter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator say about what happens in the events surrounding Kaira?

2. Who visits Armpit while he is doing some plumbing and what do they want?

3. What does Armpit realize about a song he hears Kaira sing?

4. What does Detective Newburg tell Armpit?

5. Describe the phone conversation between X-Ray and Armpit.

6. What does the letter Armpit receives from Kaira say?

7. What does Armpit's boss say about Armpit's work and what does the boss offer to do?

8. Describe the conversation between Detective Newburg and Armpit after he witnesses X-Ray's interrogation.

9. What does X-Ray tell Armpit and how does Armpit respond?

10. What does Armpit decide about the trip and how does he feel about his decision?

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