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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 fact does Sebastian discover about Buckminster Fuller when he realizes he can see through the portions of the biography that Nana has blacked out?
(a) He had been a con man.
(b) He had been romantically involved with Nana.
(c) He had spent a lot of time in brothels.
(d) He had earned a college degree at the age of twelve.

2. What is Jared's answer when Sebastian asks him for theories about whether Sid had stabbed Nancy or not?
(a) Sid was framed.
(b) Sid was too cool to be a murderer.
(c) It is one of life's mysteries.
(d) Nancy killed Sid.

3. What lie does Sebastian tell Nana when he returns from his first visit to the Whitcombs' house?
(a) He does not want friends.
(b) He is not lonely.
(c) He has altered the dome signs.
(d) He hates her.

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?
(a) Alone.
(b) Without pause.
(c) Fearlessly.
(d) With others.

5. 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 map of their unique home.
(c) A painting of their unique home.
(d) A framed photograph of their unique home.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What side effect of his new medication does Jared admit to Sebastian upon Sebastian's first visit to the Whitcombs' house?

3. What brand of cigarettes does Jared smoke?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Sebastian notice about Nana's clothing just before her stroke?

3. What aspect of the distraction Jared decides to provide while Sebastian steals the bass is so cruel to Janice and why?

4. What element of the pictures he finds of Sid Vicious does Sebastian find inspirational and encouraging?

5. What is the significance of Sebastian's secret password for the computer in the dome?

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

7. What does Nana say she discovers during a vision she has while Jared has been secretly visiting Jared for the first time?

8. What is the significance of Sebastian's comments about the South Pole?

9. What is the first question Jared asks Sebastian after he is told that Sebastian may sound funny to others since he hardly ever leaves the dome?

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

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