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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of the Preface to Even Cowgirls Get the Blues?
(a) The Countess.
(b) Bonanza Jellybean.
(c) The Rubber Rose Ranch.
(d) Single Cell Preface.

2. Robbins compares Sissy's thumbs to Leonardo having left what dangling from the Mona Lisa's mouth?
(a) Spaghetti.
(b) Pudding.
(c) A hair.
(d) Lipstick.

3. What vehicle are the cowgirls leaning against in the beginning of Chapter 46?
(a) Goat wagon.
(b) Mushroomobile.
(c) Cow cart.
(d) Peyote wagon.

4. What is Delores' full name?
(a) Delores ban Ray.
(b) Delores Castana.
(c) Delores del Ruby.
(d) Delores la Hacienda.

5. What does the Countess say is the real name of Bonanza Jellybean in Chapter 20?
(a) Michelle Danbury.
(b) Sally Jones.
(c) Rachel Trampoli.
(d) Sarah Rockefeller.

6. When was the amoeba discovered?
(a) 1700.
(b) 1695.
(c) 1674.
(d) 1802.

7. Where does Betty tell the author that she and her schoolmates ditched Sissy in Chapter 12?
(a) The drive-in theater.
(b) School picnic.
(c) Senior prom.
(d) New York.

8. Jellybean tells Sissy in Chapter 46 that love is what, and not chicken soup?
(a) Heroin.
(b) Dope.
(c) Reality.
(d) Daydreams.

9. Where did the Countess first spot Sissy Hankshaw?
(a) Central Park.
(b) New Mexico.
(c) Times Square.
(d) The Empire State Building.

10. What does the Countess tell Julian that creativity feeds on, in Chapter 27?
(a) Victory.
(b) Poisons.
(c) Electricity.
(d) Rum.

11. Who is the forewoman of the ranch?
(a) Bonanza Jellybean.
(b) Dolores.
(c) The Countess.
(d) Dorothea.

12. Who is Bonanza Jellybean in the outhouse with in Chapter 33?
(a) Katherine.
(b) Dorothea.
(c) Sissy.
(d) Dolores.

13. What is in the center of the circle of cowgirls in the beginning of Chapter 44?
(a) A goat.
(b) A cow.
(c) A bird.
(d) A car.

14. How many years have passed since Sissy left her hometown, in Chapter 17?
(a) 14.
(b) 6.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

15. What does Robbins write are the easiest creatures to hypnotize on earth?
(a) Chickens.
(b) Women.
(c) Goats.
(d) Men.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Big Red say is at fault for leaking out the word of the Chink in Chapter 46?

2. What tribe of Native Americans does Sissy supposedly have in her ancestry?

3. Richmond is referred to by the author in Chapter 11 as not a city at all but the world's largest what?

4. What does Robbins write leaves no fossils?

5. Which character says in Chapter 32, "you can tune a guitar but you can't tuna fish"?

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