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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Moth and Sani visit that reminds Moth of a giant's head?
(a) Nashville, Tennessee.
(b) New Orleans, Louisiana.
(c) Chicago, Illinois.
(d) Natural Bridge, Virginia.

2. How many days is one day on Venus equal to on Earth, according to Moth?
(a) 904.
(b) 8.
(c) 243.
(d) 62.

3. What does Sani tell Moth will never leave him, even when she does?
(a) Her voice.
(b) Her smell.
(c) Her poetry.
(d) Her dancing.

4. What happens to the Third World in Sani's creation story?
(a) Nothing - it is a perfect world.
(b) The Holy People set fire to it.
(c) The Holy People set terrible storms on it.
(d) A Water Monster floods it.

5. What is Sani's father's house filled with?
(a) Food.
(b) Herbs.
(c) Instruments.
(d) Wood.

6. What does Sani teach Moth to do when they make stops on their road trip?
(a) Play guitar.
(b) Cook.
(c) Write poetry.
(d) Knit.

7. What does Sani say he is like in Part IV?
(a) The sun.
(b) Chipped china.
(c) A smashed guitar.
(d) A broken pipe.

8. What does Moth's grandfather tell her about her own story?
(a) She will know it all at once or not at all.
(b) She can not figure it out on her own.
(c) She will need to write it herself.
(d) She will need to hear it from her ancestors.

9. Where do Moth and Sani go swimming together?
(a) The Heathen Lake.
(b) Yellowstone National Park.
(c) Lake Tahoe.
(d) Pinnacle Mountain State Park.

10. What does Moth tell Sani when he tells her he does not know how to be whole anymore?
(a) He just needs to play his music again.
(b) He can borrow whatever he needs from her.
(c) He just needs to see his father again.
(d) He just needs a change of scenery.

11. Where does Moth say she hides the key to Sani's mind?
(a) In her sock.
(b) In her diary.
(c) In her chest.
(d) In her mouth.

12. What comes into the house in Moth's story along with the mosquitoes?
(a) Stars.
(b) Cats.
(c) Ghosts.
(d) Frogs.

13. What does the Hoodoo man build a miniature model of in Moth's story?
(a) The sun.
(b) The park.
(c) The mountain range.
(d) The plantation.

14. What does swinging remind Moth of?
(a) Aunt Jack.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Swimming.
(d) Being a kid.

15. What peppers the windshield on the way to Sani's father's house?
(a) Moths.
(b) Ladybugs.
(c) Dirt.
(d) Birds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Dine call the First World in Sani's story?

2. What does Sani tell Moth he can use to smooth out the creases in her soul?

3. What does Moth imagine in the Time Travel Motel that she shares with Sani?

4. Where did Moth's grandfather bury the picture, the feather, and the hair?

5. What is the only place in the U.S. where four state lines meet?

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