1. How does Siobhán know the "Diamonds" narrator?
(a) Her brother is the school principal.
(b) She remembers the narrator from high school.
(c) She is a friend of the narrator's sister.
(d) Her son is in the narrator's gym class.

2. How did the knees of Eli's suit get stained?
(a) While he was walking to the tavern, a passing car splashed mud on them.
(b) He fell crossing the street to the tavern.
(c) He spilled a coffee on them while he was driving to the church.
(d) He knelt in the mud when he was peering through a window at the funeral.

3. What is the juxtaposition of Jimmy's comments about Tug's inability to lie convincingly with Jimmy's question about Tug's medication intended to convey?
(a) Jimmy believes that Tug is off his medication.
(b) Jimmy believes that Tug does not need his medication.
(c) Jimmy believes that Tug should be on a higher dose of his medication.
(d) Jimmy believes that Tug has medication to sell him.

4. What rhetorical purpose is served by explaining how the town council has dealt with the bridge situation?
(a) It creates dramatic irony because the characters do not know what the reader knows.
(b) It portrays the government as a force of oppression.
(c) It establishes the tone of whimsy that continues with the child pretending to be a king.
(d) It demonstrates that the government is not much help in the characters' lives.

5. What does Paudi ask about Jack?
(a) Whether he likes the horse therapy.
(b) How old he is.
(c) How often Arm sees him.
(d) Whether he has gotten better.