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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Sebastian's father doing in the only photograph of him that Sebastian has ever seen?
(a) Lying in bed.
(b) Doing a somersault.
(c) Playing tennis.
(d) Spring peanut butter on bread.

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

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

5. Jared tells Sebastian that if he says no to joining the band, he should not plan on doing what?
(a) Making a hit record.
(b) Getting paid back.
(c) Ever coming home.
(d) Being Jared's friend.

6. Buckminster Fuller thought that the largest problem with the planet Earth was that it did not come with what?
(a) A maid.
(b) An implosion button.
(c) An instruction booklet.
(d) A caretaker.

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

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

9. What is NOT one thing Janice mentions to Sebastian as one of Jared's problems when she drops him off at the dome for the first time?
(a) His lack of social skills.
(b) His health.
(c) His immaturity.
(d) His lack of the ability to get along with his family members.

10. 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) Calculus.
(c) Algebra.
(d) Geometry.

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

12. What term does Sebastian use to refer to his instrument in the band that prompts Jared to tell him never to call it that again?
(a) Bass.
(b) Axe.
(c) Electric banjo.
(d) Bass guitar.

13. What does Sebestian tell the record store clerk that convinces the clerk to sell Sebastian a CD normally restricted from purchase by minors?
(a) He is an orphan.
(b) His grandmother just had a stroke.
(c) It is the first CD he has ever bought.
(d) He lives in the dome on the hill.

14. What emotion does Sebastian finally realize he has been feeling in the cramped area beneath his ribs?
(a) Contentment.
(b) Loneliness.
(c) Confusion.
(d) Anger.

15. What band's first album does Jared play for Sebastian just after he warns him to prepare for "having his shit rocked"? (21)
(a) The Cramps.
(b) The Clash.
(c) The Misfits.
(d) The Sex Pistols.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sebastian says that when he was young, Nana would tell him that they lived inside what kind of object?

2. What does Sebastian notice in a tree outside Jared's house the first time he visits him?

3. What does Nana cite as the reason that she had not attended Buckminster Fuller's funeral?

4. What does Sebastian uncover about Sid Vicious's amplifier in his research about the punk rock icon?

5. What is the name of the first record store that Sebastian ever visits in his life?

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