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

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

3. What does Moth tell Sani is in her own metaphorical closet?
(a) Music.
(b) Candy.
(c) Dance shoes.
(d) Bodies and dirt and metal.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Moth compare Sani to early in their roadtrip in her own mind?

2. Where does Interstate 40 reach from and to?

3. What is one of Sani's favorite songs?

4. Which moth is larger than the width of a throat?

5. Why does Moth feel compelled to let go of Sani's hand in Part III?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Moth think about the contradictions of the founding fathers?

2. What does Moth's grandfather once tell her about her story?

3. What does Sani tell Moth he will do for this one summer with her?

4. What does Moth notice about the way Sani's father greets them in Part IV?

5. What does Sani appear to take his pills for?

6. What are both Moth's and Sani's favorite lyric from "Summer Song" in Part IV?

7. What does Moth wonder about Sani in terms of the kind of (metaphorical) light he emits?

8. Why does Sani tell Moth his father and mother separated?

9. What is special about the Fourth World in Sani's story?

10. Why does the Water Monster in Sani's Third World rain such sadness?

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