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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 two things does Bernard do that does not get him on the Queen's good side?
(a) Stains her carpet and maimes her dog.
(b) Gets blood on the carpet when he sits on her dog.
(c) Stains her carpet and kills her dog.
(d) Spills ink that the dog drank and died.

2. What unusual thing happens as Leigh-Cheri and Bernard describe their dream or hallucination?
(a) They both tell different stories about their dreams.
(b) They both recall the same memories from after the blast.
(c) They decide to keep it a secret.
(d) They blame it on the champagne, and decide never to drink on champagne again.

3. Where does Leigh-Cheri and Bernard live at the end of the story?
(a) They move to the house at Puget Sound.
(b) The move in with Ralph Nader.
(c) They live in the cave behind the waterfall.
(d) They move to Hawaii.

4. What does Bernard do at the end of Chapter Seventy-Two that upsets Leigh-Cheri?
(a) He gets out of jail and doesn't tell her.
(b) He sends her an angry note.
(c) He phonsd her and breaks up.
(d) He tells her he is in love with his attorney.

5. What do King Max and Queen Tillie think about Bernard?
(a) He is an outcast from society.
(b) He is a handsome man.
(c) He is an outlaw.
(d) He is a commoner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Leigh-Cheri after the blast?

2. Where does Leigh-Cheri and Bernard picnic?

3. In Chapter Eighty-Four, why is Leigh-Cheri so angry at A'ben Fizel?

4. How does Bernard define myth?

5. In the second "Interlude", what questions does the writer ask about the story?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Leigh-Cheri begin to do while she is in her self-imposed solitary confinement?

2. Why is Leigh-Cheri only permitted to tell a story when she visits Bernard in prison?

3. How did Gulietta become queen of the Furstenberg-Barcalonas' homeland?

4. Why does the writer say his new typewriter will have to cope with letters, words and sentence structures that no other typewriter has ever had?

5. How do the authorities finally find Bernard to arrest him?

6. What condition is there to the marriage of Leigh-Cheri to A'ben Fizel?

7. What kind of ending did this novel have?

8. What happened that coincided with what looked to Leigh-Cheri, Bernard, and their companions to be a space ship flying by them?

9. What questions does the writer hope to answer as he finishes the book?

10. What does Leigh-Cheri do on her birthday?

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