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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. What is the name of Sportcoat’s best friend, as revealed in Chapter 1?
(a) Hot Sausage.
(b) Hot Cake.
(c) Hot Pickle.
(d) Hot Loaf.

2. As Joe Peck reveals in Chapter 11, he needs help with a shipment coming from which country?
(a) Israel.
(b) Syria.
(c) Turkey.
(d) Lebanon.

3. According to Rufus in Chapter 8, who should accompany Sportcoat to see Sister Paul?
(a) Sister Gee.
(b) Deems.
(c) Hettie.
(d) Hot Sausage.

4. What disgusts the Elephant about the changing neighborhood?
(a) The emergence of crime.
(b) The emergence of unemployment.
(c) The emergence of drugs.
(d) The emergence of poverty.

5. What kind of car does Joe Peck drive, as revealed in Chapter 11?
(a) A Mustang.
(b) A Firebird.
(c) A Camaro.
(d) A GTO.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dominic give Sportcoat in Chapter 10?

2. What do Sportcoat and Hot Sausage share, as revealed in Chapter 10?

3. According to the narrator in Chapter 7, why do the ants arrive every year?

4. What is the name of Sportcoat’s second best friend who makes King Kong?

5. What is the name of the officer who arrests Jet after the shooting?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sportcoat both hurt and help Deems in Chapter 3?

2. How did the red ants come to the United States, as revealed in Chapter 7?

3. Who is Thelonius Ellis? What do we learn about him in Chapters 9 and 10?

4. What fear does the Elephant have in Chapter 11? Why does he feel this way?

5. Who is the Governor, and what does he ask of the Elephant in Chapter 5?

6. What happens to Earl in Chapter 8?

7. What personal information does the reader learn about the Elephant at the start of Chapter 5?

8. Who is Bunch Moon? What does he think about Deems in Chapter 6?

9. Who is Sister Paul? What information might she have for Sportcoat, as revealed in Chapter 8?

10. Who is Rufus? What does the reader learn about him in Chapter 8?

(see the answer keys)

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