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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Janice Whitcomb repeatedly cite as the reason that Mr. Whitcomb is never home?
(a) He travels a lot for his sales job.
(b) He spends a lot of time taking care of his ill mother.
(c) He and Janice are legally separated.
(d) He is frequently in the hospital for heart trouble.

2. In what state do Nana and Sebastian live?
(a) Iowa.
(b) Idaho.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) Kentucky.

3. Jared says he does not play his electric guitar at the church because it would make God so mad that He would have to take what action?
(a) Kill Jared.
(b) Strangle an angel.
(c) Blow up the chapel.
(d) Send another flood.

4. What is NOT one reason the Greater Intellect cites when it tells Buckminster Fuller that he should not commit suicide?
(a) He is important to the universe.
(b) He is too strong a swimmer to drown himself.
(c) He would be hurting others.
(d) He does not have the right to kill himself.

5. What reason does Nana cite for the need to get more money coming into the household?
(a) The heating bill is going up.
(b) Nana's social security payments will soon be cut off.
(c) Sebastian will soon need money for a new soccer uniform.
(d) The water bill is going up.

6. Nana tells Sebastian that an education means knowing how to do what?
(a) Do everything.
(b) Live fiercely.
(c) Have common sense.
(d) Support yourself.

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

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

9. What does Janice do when she drops off Sebastian at the dome for the first time that makes Sebastian wonder how often other families touch each other?
(a) Puts a hand on his shoulder.
(b) Shakes his hand.
(c) Kisses his cheek.
(d) Hugs him.

10. 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?
(a) If Nana's hand was on his back.
(b) If music was playing.
(c) If he had a picture of his deceased parents near him.
(d) If he was bedding down on the back porch.

11. What does Sebastian say to the Whitcombs just after he tells them his name?
(a) Welcome to the future.
(b) We don't want any.
(c) The hose is in the backyard.
(d) Do we get to choose how we pose?

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

13. According to Nana, the universe is sending a certain thing to people every day. What does she say the universe is sending?
(a) Signals.
(b) Creative inspiration.
(c) Puzzles to solve.
(d) Energy.

14. 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) Hang up.
(b) Start crying.
(c) Tell Jared his life story.
(d) Swear at Jared.

15. What item does Nana name as Sebastian's sales quota for the day the Whitcombs arrive?
(a) A framed photograph of their unique home.
(b) A map of their unique home.
(c) A glow-in-the-dark replica of their unique home.
(d) A painting of their unique home.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what purpose does Nana first ask Sebastian to purchase paint in town?

2. In Buckminster Fuller's most famous quote about religion, what had he said about God?

3. What lie does Sebastian tell Nana when he returns from his first visit to the Whitcombs' house?

4. What is Nana's legal first name?

5. Nana tells Sebastian that he can be just like Buckminster Fuller and can help people become what adjective?

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