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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. How did Darren believe he acquired magic powers?
(a) By kissing a girl.
(b) By rubbing poison ivy.
(c) By repeating a chant.
(d) By entering a dark cave.

2. Where is Adam at the beginning of the novel?
(a) In Taiwan.
(b) In a debate tournament.
(c) On a boat.
(d) In a bed.

3. What does Ziegler hear, once he can understand this language?
(a) Contempt.
(b) The voice of God.
(c) Endless questions.
(d) Affection.

4. How does the narrator say Bob Dole spoke at the high school debate tournament?
(a) Haltingly.
(b) Fluently.
(c) Extemporaneously.
(d) Patriotically.

5. What does the narrator say Darren would use to ward off insults?
(a) Curses.
(b) Chants.
(c) Acting.
(d) Magic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tipped Jane off to her mother’s ability to ignore difficult realities?

2. What real-life events did Jonathan’s therapist see in his feelings about the Ziegler story?

3. What caused Jane to start to receive obscene and threatening phone calls?

4. Who of Adams friends and family could he recognize by name after his concussion?

5. Where does Jane say her abuse took place?

Short Essay Questions

1. What significance does Darren attribute to the paper banner cheerleaders hold up for the football team to run through?

2. What are the kinds of things Darren finds and puts in his pockets and gauges his identity by?

3. What is the setting for the first full chapter, after the brief prologue?

4. How does Jonathan explain his success at the Foundation?

5. What was it that the Foundation community found humorous when Jonathan screened the film he made of the Ziegler story?

6. What is Adam’s relationship with Dr. Erwood?

7. What was Darren’s job, and how did he lose it?

8. How does Jane say Sima was different from the other therapists at the Foundation?

9. Where is Darren’s refuge, and what solace does he take there?

10. What was the memory Sima helped Jane uncover?

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