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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 is Boomer's sculpture in the Fifth Veil constructed out of?
(a) Empty paint cans.
(b) Duct tape.
(c) Toilet paper rolls.
(d) Popcorn.

2. According to the narrator, religion inevitably leads to what?
(a) War.
(b) Enlightenment.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Peace.

3. What things make Buddy doubt God?
(a) His bad teeth and the pustules on his face.
(b) His inability to find a wife and have children.
(c) The death of his parents.
(d) His unfulfilled desire for fame and wealth.

4. Who destroys the temple?
(a) Solomon.
(b) Nebuchadnezzar.
(c) Jezebel.
(d) David.

5. What kind of a stand does Roland Abu Hadee open?
(a) Pretzel.
(b) Falafel.
(c) Hot dog.
(d) Peanut.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Painted Stick say he is used for?

2. What is the nickname that the Berliners make up for Spike Cohen's family?

3. Who dreams about Rebuilding the Temple?

4. What does Roland Abu Hadee inherit from his father?

5. What is the subject of the painting is Ellen Cherry working on, while she and Boomer are driving across the country?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think that Ellen Cherry covers a nude portrait of Boomer with tongues?

2. What are some ways you can interpret Boomer's spy coat sculpture in which he declares his love for Ellen Cherry in a 500 different encoded messages?

3. Why does Boomer turn an airstream into a Turkey?

4. Describe Turn Around Norman's Activity. How is it important in the novel?

5. What do we learn about Patsy, Ellen Cherry's mother in the section called "The First Veil"?

6. Robbins writes, "Those people who recognize that imagination is reality's master, we call 'sages', and those who act upon it, we call 'artists.'" What do you think he means by this and why is the distinction important?

7. When Buddy goes to answer a knock at his door, he has an erection from reading about a Christian wife who goes to bed with her make-up on. What does this incident tell us about Buddy?

8. What does Robbins say about religion at the end of the Fourth Veil?

9. The Third Veil turns out to be the veil of political illusion. Robbins says that politics is "the compulsion to preside over property and make other people's decisions for them." He says that liberty can't be a result of political action. In what ways does this seem true and in what ways not true?

10. What does Ellen Cherry mean when she says that "'political art' is a contradiction in terms"?

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