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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why isn't Bernard permitted to smoke cigarettes while in jail?
(a) The jailors are afraid if he gets his hands on fire he'll make a bomb.
(b) Bernard doesn't want to smoke cigarettes.
(c) The jailors do not want second hand smoke.
(d) It is a non-smoking jail.

2. What does Bernard do at the end of Chapter Seventy-Two that upsets Leigh-Cheri?
(a) He sends her an angry note.
(b) He tells her he is in love with his attorney.
(c) He gets out of jail and doesn't tell her.
(d) He phonsd her and breaks up.

3. What does the writer say might happen during the rest of the story?
(a) He might lapse into writing Chiclet.
(b) He might have a Spanish speaking character.
(c) He might begin writing in Chinese.
(d) He might give the characters a box of Chiclets.

4. What example does Bernard give about myth?
(a) The Yellow Hairs.
(b) The Argonites.
(c) The Red Beards.
(d) The Man-on-the-Moon.

5. What happens to Bernard after the blast?
(a) He wonders what they'd do to Leigh-Cheri's body.
(b) All the answers are correct.
(c) He regains consciousness first.
(d) He is deaf.

6. Where does Leigh-Cheri and Bernard picnic?
(a) In the crater of a volcano.
(b) In a forest beneath the volcano.
(c) In the jungle.
(d) By the ocean.

7. What happens to Bernard as a toddler?
(a) His parents leave him at a gas station.
(b) His parents win the lottery.
(c) His parents are killed in a bombing.
(d) His hair turns red.

8. When does Leigh-Cheri bathe while Bernard is in jail?
(a) Saturday nights and when needed.
(b) Every night.
(c) She didn't take a bath.
(d) Saturday nights.

9. What does Bernard say about love?
(a) Love isn't possible alone.
(b) Love needs a spark to ignite just like dynamite.
(c) Love is an impossible dream.
(d) Love is the real outlaw.

10. Although Bernard rebels against behavioral codes, what does he do?
(a) He goes to charm school.
(b) He goes to Leigh-Cheri's home to meet her parents.
(c) He turns himself in to the police.
(d) He throws his last stick of dynamite in the ocean.

11. What does Leigh-Cheri do when the food and champagne run out?
(a) She tries to use the frosting from the cake to grease the lock on the door.
(b) She tries using champagne as fuel to burn through the door.
(c) She sets a fire and hopes to send smoke signals through the air vents.
(d) She decides to blow open the door, hoping they'd get out or die together.

12. How does the writer reply in Spanish to the Cuban children?
(a) "I don't speak Spanish."
(b) "I don't have Chiclets."
(c) "I don't like Chiclets."
(d) "I don't speak Chiclets."

13. In Chapter Seventy-Three, when Leigh-Cheri finally calms down, who does she ask for?
(a) Ralph Nader.
(b) Guilietta.
(c) A'ben Fizel.
(d) Bernard.

14. What does Leigh-Cheri begin to study and analyze?
(a) The behavior of her family.
(b) A box of Fruit Loops.
(c) A pack of Camel cigarettes.
(d) The birds outside her windows.

15. Why can't Leigh-Cheri follow Bernard to the ends of the earth?
(a) She will never be able to walk that far.
(b) She is grounded and can't leave home.
(c) Because she doesn't know where he is to follow him.
(d) The earth doesn't have any ends.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Leigh-Cheri and Bernard live at the end of the story?

2. What is the pea under Leigh-Cheri's mattress?

3. When will Leigh-Cheri receive her gift?

4. In the second "Interlude", what does the writer do to the typewriter he is using to write this novel?

5. What does Bernard do when Leigh-Cheri insults him?

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