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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Now that Kidd is a full scorpion, what is his relationship like with Lanya?
(a) They barely talk.
(b) They only see each other when Denny goes to see Lanya.
(c) They are just friends, but are intimate with each other.
(d) They are strictly friends.

2. What have many of the characters discovered?
(a) That they want to escape Bellona.
(b) How to act like they have a normal city.
(c) Some kind of routine amongst the chaos.
(d) How to live without certain necessities.

3. What dominates a lot of the scorpions conversation?
(a) Robbing.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Music.
(d) Sex.

4. What sort of experiments are done at Kamp's space program?
(a) Co-pilot testing.
(b) Radiation testing.
(c) Sensory awareness.
(d) Sensory deprivation.

5. How have the characters been unable to grow themselves throughout the book?
(a) There is something in Bellona which keeps people from aging.
(b) They all want to stay in Bellona which offers no growth.
(c) The characters have settled into their lives.
(d) They are all experiencing memory loss.

6. Why does Frank want to join the scorpions?
(a) He wants to pressure Kidd.
(b) Frank is greedy and wants the scorpions' food.
(c) The situation at the park commune is changing.
(d) He is trying to be more manly.

7. To what does she let the children listen everyday?
(a) A television show from the 1950s.
(b) A recording of her playing the harmonica.
(c) An old record she has.
(d) Her recorded voice.

8. Why will there be hot coffee for everyone in Chapter V?
(a) Someone donates it to the scorpions.
(b) The scorpions find a coffee warehouse.
(c) They steal coffee.
(d) They find it by the bar.

9. Why is the moon like this place?
(a) Sometimes the moon's sky bursts into flames.
(b) It is vacant of all contact to the outside world.
(c) You don't know anything about the two places even when you are there.
(d) The moon is cold and unforgiving.

10. What does a man named Frank keep mentioning at the party?
(a) He has had a relationship with Denny.
(b) The fact that he has lost a spiral notebook full of poems.
(c) He has slept with Lanya.
(d) That Kidd looks familiar.

11. While walking to Lanya's school, who do they see?
(a) The red headed Irish man.
(b) The death, blind, blonde Mexican.
(c) Children fighting in the school yard.
(d) Tak, running errands.

12. At the deserted bookstore, what is the only thing on the shelves?
(a) Newboy' s poems.
(b) Kidd's book.
(c) Nothing. No one has stocked the shelves.
(d) The daily newspaper.

13. What does Kamp think it is time for him to do?
(a) Ask Lanya to marry him.
(b) Buy a house in Bellona.
(c) Leave Bellona.
(d) Write his next book.

14. Why is Kidd feeling doubtful about his work?
(a) He is having a mental block.
(b) No one likes the book.
(c) He receives bad reviews.
(d) Because he has so many lapses in memory, he might have stolen the poems without realizing it.

15. Why does Lanya become upset with the rest of the scorpions?
(a) They are mean to her and hurt her feelings.
(b) The scorpions break into a house and force the occupants out.
(c) She finds out they attacked her when she was younger.
(d) They take up too much of the Kidd's time.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Kamp figure out the date?

2. Later, at the bar, what is everyone discussing?

3. When Lanya arrives, what does she wish to give back to Kidd?

4. At the end of this section, what does Denny finally decide to do?

5. How does Kidd try to help out after the fires have been set?

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