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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does Sebastian write on his note card during the youth group activity?
(a) What type of triangle am I?
(b) Will Nana be okay?
(c) What is my path?
(d) Who am I meant to be?

2. When Sebastian first decides to disobey Nana by learning about punk rock music online, what subject does he continue to study across the room between web searches?
(a) Trigonometry.
(b) Algebra.
(c) Calculus.
(d) Geometry.

3. What is different about Sebastian and Nana's home in relation to the other homes in town?
(a) It is made of metal.
(b) It is ten stories tall.
(c) It is octagonal in shape.
(d) It is a glass dome.

4. When Jared asks Sebastian to start a band with him, he says he needs somebody who will do what he says, not someone with a real what?
(a) A flair for music.
(b) Talent.
(c) Chops.
(d) Personality.

5. What does Jared say is responsible for the scar on his chest?
(a) Spleen surgery.
(b) An appendectomy.
(c) Heart transplant surgery.
(d) A tiger attack.

6. For what purpose does Nana first ask Sebastian to purchase paint in town?
(a) To paint the fence.
(b) To change the signs for tourists.
(c) To paint the countries of the world on their home.
(d) To paint the kitchen cabinets.

7. What chord does Jared tell Sebastian is the best guitar chord of all?
(a) C.
(b) A.
(c) G.
(d) E.

8. Where does Sebastian first stow the bass that he steals from the church?
(a) In his bedroom closet.
(b) In Jared's attic.
(c) In the abandoned van at the end of his road.
(d) In the shed behind the dome.

9. Sebastian says that when he was young, Nana would tell him that they lived inside what kind of object?
(a) A snow globe.
(b) A ruby.
(c) An igloo.
(d) A golf ball.

10. Nana tells Sebastian that he can be just like Buckminster Fuller and can help people become what adjective?
(a) Free.
(b) Smart.
(c) Happy.
(d) Enlightened.

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

12. In Buckminster Fuller's most famous quote about religion, what had he said about God?
(a) God is a verb, not a noun.
(b) God is at the heart of trigonometry.
(c) God is dead.
(d) God is within us all.

13. What is Nana's legal first name?
(a) Rosalind.
(b) Josephine.
(c) Martha.
(d) Ruby.

14. What type of shape composes Sebastian and Nana's geodesic dome?
(a) Octagons.
(b) Equilateral triangles.
(c) Isoceles triangles.
(d) Spheres.

15. When Sebastian receives an email from Jared after his first visit to the Whitcombs' house, what does Jared write that he will do if Sebastian ever tries to touch him again?
(a) He will throw a rock through the dome's glass.
(b) He will never speak to him again.
(c) He will beat his ass.
(d) He will tell Janice.

Short Answer Questions

1. One of Buckminster Fuller's visions was called a Cloud Nine. How did he define a Cloud Nine?

2. What brand of cigarettes does Jared smoke?

3. Sebastian tells the reader that when he was five years old, the only way he could fall asleep was if what action was being done?

4. What does Sebestian tell the record store clerk that convinces the clerk to sell Sebastian a CD normally restricted from purchase by minors?

5. For what purpose do the Whitcombs arrive at Sebastian and Nana's house the first time they come?

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