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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 non-italicized section of Chapter 8, where does Brat get admitted to school?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Pace.
(c) Georgia State University.
(d) Emory.

2. In the non-italicized section of Chapter 6, what did Kline's parrot do in the carnival?
(a) Flew through a maze.
(b) Juggled handkerchiefs.
(c) Balanced a ball on his beak.
(d) Rode a bicycle on a wire.

3. To whom does Bobby try writing letters during the winter while he is on leave from New Orleans?
(a) His sister.
(b) His father.
(c) Kline.
(d) His mother.

4. In the non-italicized section of Chapter 6, what does Bobby tell Kline that he finds in the woods when Bobby is 13?
(a) A tiger that escaped from the zoo.
(b) A crashed racing plane.
(c) A young boy running with a pack of stray dogs.
(d) A cave with a sleeping bear inside.

5. In the italicized section of Chapter 5, after the girl wakes up in the recovery room, how does the Kid look?
(a) More solid than he ever looked before.
(b) Iridescent and barely there.
(c) He appears only as a disembodied voice.
(d) Black with soot, his cloak smoking.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the italicized section of Chapter 8, what does the girl bring to her neighbor's apartment?

2. In the non-italicized section of Chapter 5, what animal does John see at the Absinthe House a while back?

3. In the non-italicized section of Chapter 6, what invitation does Bobby get in a letter from John Aldrich the following year?

4. In the non-italicized section of Chapter 6, what is Kline's role in his family's carnival?

5. In the italicized section of Chapter 6, what does the girl say happens to the contents of the old steamer trunk?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the opening of the non-italicized section of Chapter 6, where is Bobby and what is he doing?

2. What does the IRS do to Bobby?

3. How does the person that Bobby meets with after talking to the guys in suits know that Bobby's sister was beautiful?

4. As a child what does Bobby find in the woods?

5. What is in the trunk that the Kid brings into the girl's room?

6. Why does Bobby go back Wartburg, Tennessee after his conversation with Asher?

7. What is Bobby's response to the IRS agent at the post office?

8. What does Kline think is happening to Bobby in regard to Bobby doing dumb things?

9. One night while Bobby is in Wartburg, Bobby mentions Alice's papers. Who is Alice? What happened to her?

10. In the italicized section of Chapter 5, why does Bobby change his major from math to physics?

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