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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: Tensional Forces - Chapter 13: A Model World.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Nana has a stroke, how long does Sebastian tell the reader it takes the ambulance to arrive after Janice Whitcomb calls 911?
(a) 8 minutes.
(b) 1 hour.
(c) 14 minutes.
(d) 30 minutes.

2. What does Jared call Janice when she asks Jared if he has played his electric guitar for Sebastian?
(a) Mother.
(b) Dollface.
(c) Mommy.
(d) Janice.

3. In what season does the novel's story begin?
(a) Winter.
(b) Fall.
(c) Spring.
(d) Summer.

4. What does Nana cite as the reason that she had not attended Buckminster Fuller's funeral?
(a) She had been angry at him for dying.
(b) She had missed her flight.
(c) She had been too grief-stricken.
(d) She had not been invited.

5. When Sebastian calls Jared for the first time and Jared asks why he has called, what does Sebastian reveal to the reader that he then has the urge to do?
(a) Tell Jared his life story.
(b) Start crying.
(c) Swear at Jared.
(d) Hang up.

Short Answer Questions

1. One of Buckminster Fuller's guiding principles by which Sebastian and Nana live says, "Every day I will give myself wholly to" (7) what?

2. What is Nana's legal first name?

3. What happens to cut the first youth group meeting short?

4. One of Buckminster Fuller's guiding principles says, "I will forge my journey" in a particular way "to keep accepting and totally boneheaded notions from blinding me to truth" (7). What is that the particular way the principle says one's journey should be forged?

5. What fact does Sebastian discover about Buckminster Fuller when he realizes he can see through the portions of the biography that Nana has blacked out?

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