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

2. What two things does Bernard do that does not get him on the Queen's good side?
(a) Gets blood on the carpet when he sits on her dog.
(b) Spills ink that the dog drank and died.
(c) Stains her carpet and kills her dog.
(d) Stains her carpet and maimes her dog.

3. What does Bernard do when Leigh-Cheri insults him?
(a) He tries to burn the building.
(b) He lights a stick of dynamite.
(c) He calls her a "spoiled princess."
(d) He storms out of the bar they are in.

4. What happens to King Max because of all his worry over Leigh-Cheri?
(a) He dies in Reno.
(b) He wins the house in Reno.
(c) He meets a showgirl and wants to divorce Tilli.
(d) He wants to hold a party for their return.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. While on the boat in Chapter Forty-Four, what does Leigh-Cheri and Bernard see?

2. Why does Gulietta go on strike?

3. Why can't Leigh-Cheri follow Bernard to the ends of the earth?

4. In the second "Interlude", what questions does the writer ask about the story?

5. What does Bernard say about people who limit others?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Leigh-Cheri do on her birthday?

2. What questions does the writer hope to answer as he finishes the book?

3. What did Bernard do to his attorney when he learned he was not going to have a trial and would only finish his original sentence?

4. How do the authorities finally find Bernard to arrest him?

5. Who are the "Red Beards" Bernard tells Leigh-Cheri about?

6. What does Bernard think has happened to Leigh-Cheri after he awakens following the blast that set them free?

7. Why is Leigh-Cheri only permitted to tell a story when she visits Bernard in prison?

8. What kind of ending did this novel have?

9. How did Gulietta become queen of the Furstenberg-Barcalonas' homeland?

10. What happened that coincided with what looked to Leigh-Cheri, Bernard, and their companions to be a space ship flying by them?

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