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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 literary device is used in the phrase, “fluttering around his awakened heart like butterflies” (117)?
(a) Allusion.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Simile.
(d) Irony.

2. Which local criminal runs the drug operation at the Cause?
(a) Harold Dean.
(b) Earl.
(c) The Elephant.
(d) Bunch Moon.

3. Which individual is Earl reluctant to leave, as revealed in Chapter 6?
(a) Bunch Moon.
(b) The Elephant.
(c) Deems.
(d) Joe Peck.

4. Which person must not come to any harm, according to Deems in Chapter 7?
(a) Sister Gee.
(b) Beanie.
(c) Sportcoat.
(d) Pudgy Fingers.

5. Where does the Governor live, as revealed in Chapter 11?
(a) Staten Island.
(b) Manhattan.
(c) Queens.
(d) The Bronx.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Irishman need the Elephant to transport an object, according to their conversation in Chapter 5?

2. According to the Irishman in Chapter 5, where is this object hidden?

3. For which individual does Officer Potts have an arrest warrant in Chapter 9?

4. What is the band celebrating in Chapter 10?

5. According to Rufus in Chapter 8, who should accompany Sportcoat to see Sister Paul?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Hot Sausage? What does he tell Sportcoat in Chapter 4? How does Sportcoat respond?

3. How was Sportcoat’s childhood an unhappy one, as revealed in Chapter 2?

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

5. What happens between Officer Potts and Sister Gee in Chapter 9?

6. What band is playing in Chapter 10? Why?

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

8. What changes is Bunch considering making, as revealed in Chapter 6?

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

10. What various misfortunes have befallen Sportcoat, as explained by the narrator in Chapter 2?

(see the answer keys)

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