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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What good news does Newboy have for Kidd?
(a) Calkins wants to take Kidd under his wing.
(b) The newspaper would like to publish Kidd's poems.
(c) He wants Kidd to live with him.
(d) They want to publish the poems under Newboy's name.

2. The next day, while Mrs. Richards and Kidd talk, what happens?
(a) Bobby Richards falls down the elevator shaft.
(b) June screams and punches Kidd.
(c) Mrs. Richards has another episode.
(d) Mrs. Richards accuses Kidd of stealing things from their apartment.

3. How does Lanya Colson try to help Kidd?
(a) She tries to help him remember his past.
(b) She gives him pills to make his head stop hurting.
(c) She gives him a massage.
(d) She gives him food.

4. How does Mrs, Richards try to keep up appearances and thus become delusional?
(a) She acts as though all her old friends are still in the neighborhood.
(b) She refuses to read current news articles.
(c) She cannot use the internet to understand what has happened.
(d) She pretends she will entertain her husband's business associates.

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

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

7. Has Kidd actually ever seriously thought about publishing his poems?
(a) No, because he does not think anyone would like them.
(b) Yes, he has been trying to sell his ideas for a while.
(c) Yes, but under a different name.
(d) No, they are just his way to express himself.

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

9. What do the women whom Kidd meets in Chapter 1 give him?
(a) A bladed orchid.
(b) A prism with stakes.
(c) Some clothes.
(d) A gun.

10. Who is Ernest Newboy?
(a) A famous poet visiting Bellona by invitation of Roger Calkins.
(b) A local hero.
(c) An apartment building owner.
(d) A gambler who has lost a lot of money.

11. What does the woman Kidd met turn into before his eyes?
(a) Water.
(b) An animal.
(c) A prism.
(d) A tree.

12. What should Kidd have been more forceful doing?
(a) Demanding his money.
(b) Refusing to eat the Richards food.
(c) Discussing specific wages.
(d) Asking for more money.

13. Does Mr. Richards actually work?
(a) No, he lies about where he goes during the day.
(b) Yes, he owns a whole company.
(c) Yes, but he is no longer an engineer.
(d) He goes to a building were he used to work, but there is no other staff.

14. Interestingly, who do many people think of as the only law enforcement in town?
(a) Tak.
(b) There is none.
(c) The black gangs.
(d) The scorpions.

15. What does Kidd think the reason for Bobby's death may have been?
(a) Eddy told June to kill Bobby.
(b) Bobby gave June the poster of Harrison.
(c) Bobby tried to hurt June. She acted in self defense.
(d) Bobby was spying on the scorpions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Lanya and Kidd discuss once Kidd returns to the commune?

2. Who does Kidd find to help him?

3. Where is Kidd finally dropped off?

4. When Mr. Richards arrives home, who is still with Mrs. Richards?

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

(see the answer keys)

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