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

2. What does Sebastian uncover about Sid Vicious's amplifier in his research about the punk rock icon?
(a) It was vintage circa 1932.
(b) It was rarely plugged in.
(c) It caught fire.
(d) It had a 500-watt power source.

3. Whom does Jared name as the first punk rocker?
(a) General Patton.
(b) Marie Antoinette.
(c) Napoleon.
(d) Louis XIV.

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

5. 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) Send another flood.
(b) Strangle an angel.
(c) Kill Jared.
(d) Blow up the chapel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jared's answer when Sebastian asks him for theories about whether Sid had stabbed Nancy or not?

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

3. What denomination is the church to which the Whitcomb family belongs?

4. What vision does Nana have when she is attuned to the signals of a Greater Intellect?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the Guiding Principles according to Buckminster Fuller's philosophy of life.

2. What is the significance of Sebastian's first experience in a record store?

3. What is the significance of the scene in which Jared shows his scar?

4. What is the significance of the framed photographs of the dome that Nana and Sebastian sell in their gift shop?

5. How does Janice's invitation to stay for lunch serve as a major turning point in Sebastian's life?

6. How do Nana's past predictions about Sebastian's path contrast with her pronouncements about him after her stroke?

7. How do Sebastian's train of simple postscripts in his emails to Jared intrigue and draw Jared in to a friendship?

8. How do Nana's first comments to Sebastian in the hospital foreshadow coming events?

9. What does Sebastian say he used to require from Nana in order to be able to fall asleep and what is its significance?

10. What does Sebastian reveal to the reader about crying during the scene when he is riding with Nana in the ambulance?

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