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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the only person in Bellona who seems to read outside news?
(a) George Harrison.
(b) Tak.
(c) Newboy.
(d) Frank.

2. Who is George Harrison?
(a) A very good poet.
(b) A local thug.
(c) A local cult hero and possible rapist.
(d) A local business owner.

3. To whom does Lanya want to show Kidd's poems?
(a) Calkins.
(b) Newboy.
(c) Millie.
(d) Frank.

4. What is the first line of the novel Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany?
(a) Hall of mirrors.
(b) To wound the autumnal city.
(c) So howled out for the world to give him a name.
(d) The in-dark answered with wind.

5. What service does Bellona lack?
(a) Stores.
(b) Plumbers and electricians.
(c) Doctors and nurses.
(d) Places to eat.

6. What is the name of the Bellona newspaper?
(a) The Bellona Weekly.
(b) Bellona Weekly News.
(c) The Bellona Times.
(d) The Weekly Dish.

7. What is Calkins house like?
(a) A large house/compound.
(b) Another apartment complex.
(c) A shack.
(d) Very close to the bar.

8. What is the reason that the Richards will not leave Bellona?
(a) Mr. Richards thinks their kids like living there.
(b) Mr. Richards likes their apartment.
(c) Because Mrs. Richards refuses to leave.
(d) They have no money to leave.

9. Why does it seem that people come to Bellona?
(a) It is a place to take a break from life.
(b) To lose themselves in nothingness.
(c) There is no law and people can do what they want.
(d) The rents are cheap.

10. Who does Kidd find in an apartment on the floor below the Richards' current apartment?
(a) Lanya and the park commune people.
(b) Madame Brown.
(c) Scorpions.
(d) Tak.

11. Who does Kidd help to deliver papers on a paper route?
(a) Roger Calkins.
(b) Joaquin Faust.
(c) George Newboy.
(d) George Harrison.

12. When Mr. Richards arrives home, who is still with Mrs. Richards?
(a) Madame Brown and Kidd.
(b) Only Kidd.
(c) No one.
(d) June and Kidd.

13. In the public bathroom, who does Kidd find?
(a) Pepper, a sick scorpion.
(b) Eddy hiding from his parents.
(c) Lanya angry with him.
(d) Bunny, a small animal.

14. How does Kidd's relationship with the scorpions change?
(a) They take Kidd under their wing.
(b) They promise not to beat him up any more.
(c) They appreciate his poetry.
(d) He starts a sexual relationship with one of their women.

15. How does Lanya react to the news that Kidd has a job?
(a) Perplexed.
(b) Not interested.
(c) Bored.
(d) Angry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Does Kidd think he has any reason for getting on the bus that pulls up near the bar?

2. When they arrive at Calkins' house, who is there to greet them?

3. Interestingly, who do many people think of as the only law enforcement in town?

4. What do the women whom Kidd meets in Chapter 1 give him?

5. From the discussion at the bar regarding the riots, it becomes clear that _____

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