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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. What outstanding feature does Cedar describe of her baby's father in Part I?
(a) He has a third eye.
(b) He has four feet.
(c) He has wings.
(d) He has four arms.

2. What does Cedar believe Eddy's book serves as for him?
(a) An apology.
(b) Revenge.
(c) Therapy.
(d) Idolation.

3. Cedar remarks in Part I, "We can tell everything about the brain except" what (62)?
(a) "Why it worries."
(b) "How it reacts to new stimuli."
(c) "What it thinks."
(d) "Why it exists."

4. What does Cedar claim she has no proficiency for in Part I?
(a) Remembering the past.
(b) Loving her family.
(c) Envisioning the future.
(d) Experiencing the present.

5. What does Eddy say his book is basically an argument against?
(a) Murder.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Oppression.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cedar say our planet's age is in Part I?

2. Where does Cedar see the phrase "Future Home of the Living God" in Part I (13)?

3. What are Cedar's adoptive parents referred to as being in the first sentence of Part I?

4. About how tall is Eddy described as being?

5. For what show does Cedar say the Songmakers have traditionally taken out their old-fashioned TV from the closet?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what ways is the name "Mary" significant in the novel?

2. What does the lizardlike bird that Cedar observes in Part I represent?

3. How is Little Mary described when her character is introduced?

4. What is Eddy's book comprised of? How long is it when Cedar meets him?

5. When and where does the title of the novel appear in the narrative? What does it refer to?

6. What provisions does Phil bring to Cedar's home in Part I? Where has he obtained them?

7. From what perspective and tense is the story related? How is the novel framed?

8. Why is Cedar going to an Ojibwe reservation in Part I?

9. What are Cedar's spiritual/religious beliefs like?

10. What information do Eddy and Sweetie reveal when they tap on Cedar's window in Part I?

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