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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Moth tell Sani he tells stories?
(a) Like he was born to do it.
(b) As if he does not really know how the story will end.
(c) In pieces.
(d) The same way she thinks he would dance - sure, full, and alive.

3. How does Sani feel when he and Moth reach the Reservation in Part IV?
(a) Sad.
(b) The Motherland is cradling him.
(c) Nervous about seeing his father again.
(d) Angry.

4. How many worlds are in Sani's creation story?
(a) 8.
(b) 3.
(c) 10.
(d) 4.

5. What did some people do with photos of the burning bodies of Black people in the Old South, according to Moth's grandfather?
(a) Make postcards out of them.
(b) Sold them.
(c) Used their bones for windchimes.
(d) Buried them.

6. What do the Holy People do to the First World in Sani's story?
(a) Eat it.
(b) Steal it.
(c) Flood it.
(d) Set fire to the darkness.

7. In Moth's story for Sani in Part III, where does Hercules get stuck?
(a) The lake.
(b) The spacecraft.
(c) The cabinet.
(d) The mountain trail.

8. What do Moth and Sani visit in Canyon State Park?
(a) A lighthouse.
(b) A trail.
(c) A cemetery.
(d) A movie theater.

9. Where did Moth's grandfather bury the picture, the feather, and the hair?
(a) Under the willow in the cemetery.
(b) In Aunt Jack's backyard.
(c) In Sani's father's forest.
(d) In the loamy soil on the riverbank.

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

11. What do the Holy People do to the Second World in Sani's creation story?
(a) Ravage it with fire.
(b) Set winds blowing everything on it.
(c) Flood it.
(d) Eat it.

12. What does Moth use during her morning ritual every day, even on her road trip with Sani?
(a) Her radio.
(b) The box of roots from her grandfather.
(c) Her toe shoes.
(d) Her journal.

13. What does Moth think kissing Sani feels like?
(a) Reading a great book.
(b) A song.
(c) Lollipops.
(d) Home.

14. What does Moth think temptation is?
(a) A hoax.
(b) A sin Jesus forgot to write down.
(c) A prayer.
(d) A necessity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sani tell Moth in Part III will hurt him when it eventually happens with her?

2. Where do Moth and Sani visit that reminds Moth of a giant's head?

3. What does Sani tell Moth she reminds him of?

4. What comes into the house in Moth's story along with the mosquitoes?

5. What does Moth imagine hers and Sani's Summer Song is like to them as they sleep?

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