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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. By what name does Deems call Sportcoat in Chapter 23?
(a) Deacon Moonflower.
(b) Deacon King Kong.
(c) Deacon Sportcoat.
(d) Deacon Lambkin.

2. According to Sportcoat in Chapter 23, what has not been chosen for Deems?
(a) A life of love.
(b) A life of honesty.
(c) A life of peace.
(d) A life of goodness.

3. According to Sister Paul in Chapter 24, whom did she help many years ago?
(a) Hettie.
(b) Driscoll Sturgess.
(c) Joe Peck.
(d) Guido Elefante.

4. What is the homemade object that Sportcoat gives to Deems in Chapter 23?
(a) A get-well bracelet.
(b) A get-well doll.
(c) A get-well card.
(d) A get-well potion.

5. According to his words in Chapter 19, whom does Joe Peck believe was behind the shooting at the pier?
(a) Deems.
(b) Bunch Moon.
(c) The Gorvinos.
(d) The Elephant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the only other person to call the Elephant by his childhood nickname, as revealed in Chapter 13?

2. How does Sportcoat describe the water in Chapter 26?

3. After helping the Elephant in Chapter 25, for what does Sportcoat ask in return?

4. What shocked Hettie about her New York home, as she reveals in Chapter 20?

5. Who recently contacted Hot Sausage in Chapter 26?

Short Essay Questions

1. What plan does Sportcoat hatch in Chapter 17? How does Hot Sausage respond?

2. What information does Potts give to Sister Gee in Chapter 18?

3. What information does Sister Paul give Sportcoat in Chapter 24?

4. What news does Potts give to Sister Gee in Chapter 15?

5. What bit of hope does Sister Gee give to her community in Chapter 18? How does she know this?

6. Briefly describe the conversation between Sportcoat and the Elephant in Chapter 16.

7. What does Sportcoat reveal about his son in Chapter 26?

8. What plan does Bunch Moon hatch in Chapter 14? Why?

9. What realizations does Sportcoat come to in Chapter 20? What does he decide to do in response?

10. What does the reader learn about Haroldeen in Chapter 22?

(see the answer keys)

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