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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Enoch do with his clothes after exiting Gonga's van?
(a) He buries them
(b) He washes them
(c) He dusts them off
(d) He burns them

2. What does Haze do when he returns to the boarding house after a night of preaching?
(a) He goes to bed
(b) He sneaks into Sabbath Lily's bed
(c) He picks the lock on the door of the Hawks' room
(d) He prays for guidance

3. What is Onnie Jay Holy's real name?
(a) Shoats Hoover
(b) Onnie Jay Hoover
(c) Hoover Shoats
(d) Hazel Motes

4. How does Enoch react to Gonga's growls?
(a) He is terrified
(b) He is insulted
(c) He is angry
(d) He laughs

5. Who does the author liken Enoch to when he is in the movie theater?
(a) Jonah
(b) Jesus
(c) Haze
(d) God

6. Why does Haze purchase a back of quicklime?
(a) To kill himself
(b) To blind the police officer with
(c) To blind himself with
(d) To pour on the Essex

7. What bothers Enoch about the portrait of the moose hanging in his room?
(a) The moose appears to be smug and superior
(b) The moose is dead
(c) The moose is looking directly at him
(d) The frame does not go well with the portrait

8. Who follows the True Prophet when he finishes preaching?
(a) Shoats
(b) Asa Hawks
(c) Enoch
(d) Haze

9. What happens to the rug when Enoch attempts to clean it?
(a) It falls out the window
(b) He bleaches it with cleaner
(c) It disintegrates
(d) Carpet tacks come out of it

10. Why does Enoch paint the cabinet of the wash stand with gilt?
(a) To make it match the picture frame on the wall
(b) His blood has told him it is to be used for something important
(c) The paint in the wash stand cabinet was peeling
(d) He wants to make his room more attractive

11. Why does the policeman push Haze's car over the embankment?
(a) Haze doesn't have a driver's license
(b) The car is leaking gas
(c) Haze was speeding
(d) Haze doesn't have car insurance

12. Why does Sabbath Lily say she must stay with Haze?
(a) Her father has run off without her
(b) Her father disowned her
(c) Her father is dead
(d) Her father is a crook

13. What does Haze do to get the True Prophet's attention?
(a) Haze flashes his headlights at the other's car
(b) Haze shouts at the True Prophet
(c) Haze rams the Essex into his car
(d) Haze follows the True Prophet

14. How does Gonga react to Enoch?
(a) He is impressed by him
(b) He insults him
(c) He becomes angry with him
(d) He laughs at him

15. What is notable about Enoch's landlady?
(a) She and Enoch have the same taste in art
(b) She is nearly blind, but navigates the house using her sense of smell
(c) She is willing to allow Enoch to decorate his room however he would like
(d) She is nearly deaf, but uses her sense of smell to

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Enoch's instinct tell him Haze lives?

2. What does Enoch end up eating at the diner?

3. Why does Enoch treasure his change purse?

4. How does Haze ensure the True Prophet will no longer preach his religion?

5. Why does Haze regularly throw out money?

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