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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When a band member was looking for Buddy, where was he hiding?
(a) In a cab.
(b) Under a table.
(c) In the bathroom.
(d) In the station.

2. What does Buddy ask the Brewitts to do with his coat?
(a) Burn it.
(b) Wash it.
(c) Hang it up.
(d) Return it.

3. Buddy used to build up strength where?
(a) His hands.
(b) His arms and legs.
(c) His chest.
(d) His lips and lungs.

4. What does Buddy appreciate about restaurant vents?
(a) The noise.
(b) The heat and smell.
(c) The brilliance.
(d) The beauty.

5. When Webb and Buddy were first friends, Buddy was ____.
(a) 17.
(b) 25.
(c) 12.
(d) 32.

6. When Webb and Buddy lived together, what did Webb collect?
(a) Hanging magnets.
(b) Stamps.
(c) Stray dogs.
(d) Bottle caps.

7. How does Webb find Buddy's music?
(a) Too confusing.
(b) Too coarse.
(c) Too generic.
(d) Very beautiful.

8. Buddy cuts hair until ____ PM.
(a) Ten.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Eight.

9. Why is Buddy on a boat?
(a) He's in love with a woman.
(b) He's been kidnapped.
(c) He's fishing.
(d) He's running from the police.

10. When does Buddy step out of the marching band?
(a) Never.
(b) At the end.
(c) Every 300 yards.
(d) Every verse.

11. The neighborhoods in "Coming Through Slaughter" have notorious stories of gamblers, prostitutes, and _______.
(a) Pianists.
(b) Immigrants.
(c) Artists.
(d) Mobsters.

12. Where will most of the clues to Buddy's whereabouts come from?
(a) Buddy journal.
(b) Bars around town.
(c) Webb's memory.
(d) Nora's observations.

13. Nora's mother is a ______.
(a) Cop.
(b) Criminal.
(c) Writer.
(d) Widow.

14. Who does Buddy have reoccurring nightmares about?
(a) Nora's mother.
(b) His parents.
(c) His children.
(d) Webb.

15. Buddy moved on to become _______.
(a) A waiter.
(b) A politician.
(c) A barber's apprentice.
(d) A salesman.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Webb finally come to see Buddy play?

2. When does Nora report Buddy missing?

3. After being interviewed, where do the Brewitts go?

4. Buddy walks his kids to school by ____ AM.

5. At the end of Chapter 1, Buddy watches a woman chop _____.

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