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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. In the Italicized section of Chapter 3, in what subject does the girl get a B?
(a) Science.
(b) Religion.
(c) English.
(d) Math.

2. In the non-italicized section of Chapter 4, who do all the smart people think was the smartest man that god ever made?
(a) Feynman.
(b) Bobby's father.
(c) Oppenheimer.
(d) Einstein.

3. In the non-italicized section of Chapter 1, what does Bobby realize is missing from the plane?
(a) The fuselage.
(b) The steering column.
(c) The navigation rack.
(d) The satellite phone.

4. In the non-italicized section of Chapter 1, what is Bobby's lunch date's original first name?
(a) Julian.
(b) William.
(c) Thomas.
(d) Michael.

5. In the non-italicized section of Chapter 3, what does Bobby realize when he gets back to his apartment after talking to Oiler?
(a) He forgot his dive gear at the operations office.
(b) That he needs to return what he borrowed from Lou.
(c) That he forgot to tell something to Oiler.
(d) That some guys have broken into his apartment and searched through his things.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the non-italicized section of Chapter 1, what is the model name of the downed plane?

2. In the Italicized section of Chapter 3, who does the girl say is the only one of the Kid's cohorts that she cares about?

3. In the non-italicized section of Chapter 3, who lived in the room at the bar before Bobby moves in?

4. In the non-italicized section of Chapter 4, how does Bobby think of his sister's hair when they are on the plane coming back from Mexico?

5. In the Italicized section of the Chapter 1, in the girl's dream, what are she and Bobby running after?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Oiler say that he regrets the most about his time in Vietnam?

2. What is peculiar about this downed plane?

3. What is Oiler's attitude about his time in Vietnam?

4. While Bobby is sitting in the cathedral, what does Bobby remember his sister saying about the afterlife and God?

5. How does the Kid feel about almost all the acts that he brings up? How does he generally end them that gives a clue as to how he feels?

6. What is Oiler going to do on his dive job in Venezuela?

7. What is the job that Bobby and Red go on in Port Sulphur?

8. Who is the bathless one and what does he do?

9. How does the Kid talk? What is the reader's impression of the Kid from the ways he talks and the language that he uses.

10. Who does the hunter find on his walk through the woods?

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