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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. A quote from which author opens the interlude?
(a) Christopher Hitchens.
(b) Kurt Vonnegut.
(c) Charles Baudelaire.
(d) John Steinbeck.

2. What does Daniel do to feel closer to Manny after Manny dies?
(a) Daniel sings songs they used to love.
(b) Daniel writes Manny emails.
(c) Daniel dances in regalia.
(d) Daniel reads Manny's favorite book.

3. Who stays with Blue in the bus station bathroom?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her best friend.
(d) A kind stranger who is an elderly woman.

4. Who are Octavio's cousins that he spends the most time with?
(a) Edwin and Harvey.
(b) Charles and Carlos.
(c) Calvin and Carlos.
(d) Manny and Daniel.

5. Which baseball team was Bill always devoted to?
(a) The Arizona Clippers.
(b) The Oakland Athletics.
(c) The New Mexico Rumblers.
(d) The New York Yankees.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sixto do with Octavio when Octavio comes to visit him after his mother and brother's deaths?

2. Why does Blue not want to leave the bus station bathroom?

3. Why does Calvin owe Octavio money?

4. What was Bill's favorite activity in jail?

5. What kind of music does Opal like to listen to while she works?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Octavio's grandmother Josefina ask Octavio to help her with in order to ward off the curse she says he is under?

2. Who gave Opal the regalia that Orvil has secretly been trying on and what is that person's relationship to another main character?

3. What is one of Bill Davis's great enthusiasms in life?

4. What is the one thing Thomas Frank was always good at?

5. What does Sixto tell Octavio that he and Octavio have in common?

6. What does Bill try to catch out of annoyance when he sees it as he is preforming his maintenance duties at the Oakland Coliseum?

7. Why does Orange suggest Opal has developed superstitious behaviors?

8. How does Bill Davis feel about Edwin Black?

9. What very strange physical ailment do Orvil and Opal share?

10. What are the circumstances around Thomas's firing?

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