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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What shocked Hettie about her New York home, as she reveals in Chapter 20?
(a) The lack of laughter.
(b) The lack of love.
(c) The lack of plants.
(d) The lack of hope.

2. Why does the Governor’s daughter briefly interrupt his meeting with the Elephant in Chapter 13?
(a) To give her father medicine.
(b) To clean.
(c) To take notes.
(d) To meet the Elephant.

3. What does Sister Gee ask Potts at the end of Chapter 15?
(a) To run away with her.
(b) To leave her alone.
(c) To come back with any news.
(d) To pray with her.

4. According to Lightbulb in Chapter 14, Deems wants to work with which individual?
(a) Officer Potts.
(b) The Elephant.
(c) Beanie.
(d) Joe Peck.

5. After helping the Elephant in Chapter 25, for what does Sportcoat ask in return?
(a) Help staying sober.
(b) Help finding Harold Dean.
(c) Help planting a garden of moonflowers.
(d) Help finding the Christmas Club money.

6. According to Haroldeen in Chapter 22, she is finished doing what?
(a) Heroin.
(b) Hurting people.
(c) Pretending to be dumb.
(d) Working for others.

7. How is Sportcoat’s funeral described in Chapter 26?
(a) As the smallest in Cause history.
(b) As the greatest in Cause history.
(c) As the loudest in Cause history.
(d) As the saddest in Cause history.

8. What is inside the paper bag that Sportcoat gives to Deems in Chapter 23?
(a) A golf ball.
(b) A squeeze ball.
(c) A baseball.
(d) A crystal ball.

9. Which person does Bunch tell Earl to get in Chapter 14?
(a) The Elephant.
(b) Harold Dean.
(c) Joe Peck.
(d) Mr. Gorvino.

10. As Chapter 24 begins, how long has Sportcoat been sober?
(a) 14 hours.
(b) 20 hours.
(c) 17 hours.
(d) 9 hours.

11. According to Potts in Chapter 18, what happened to Hot Sausage?
(a) He ran off.
(b) He was hit by a train.
(c) He was fatally shot.
(d) He drowned.

12. For what is Deems mourning at the start of Chapter 23?
(a) The loss of his mother.
(b) The loss of his ear.
(c) The loss of his mentor.
(d) The loss of two friends.

13. What truth does Sportcoat reveal about Pudgy Fingers in Chapter 26?
(a) That Pudgy Fingers is not really his biological child.
(b) That Pudgy Fingers is not really blind.
(c) That Pudgy Fingers is not really unintelligent.
(d) That Pudgy Fingers is not really pudgy.

14. According to the Governor in Chapter 13, in what church was the Venus discovered?
(a) The Church of the Holy Trinity.
(b) The Church of the Sacred Heart.
(c) The Church of the Ascension.
(d) The Church of the Visitation.

15. In Chapter 21, the Elephant confirms that the Gorvino crime family knows which individual?
(a) Harold Dean.
(b) Bunch Moon.
(c) Joe Peck.
(d) Guido Elefante.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Elephant offer Sportcoat in Chapter 16?

2. What is Hot Sausage wearing in Chapter 17?

3. Which dealer did Deems defeat in order to control the Cause, as revealed in Chapter 14?

4. By what name does Deems call Sportcoat in Chapter 23?

5. What does Potts hear coming from Five Ends Baptist at the end of Chapter 21?

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