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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Voices were given a seat because it was felt that all _____ and neighborhoods should have representation in the new system.
(a) Guilds.
(b) Rebels.
(c) Governments.
(d) Offices.

2. Bird awakens confused and disoriented, and finds himself in bed with a young man named ______.
(a) Birch.
(b) Bigjohn.
(c) Littlejohn.
(d) Hijohn.

3. Lily responds to Bird's concerns by saying that if he told them the truth that ____ old women who listen and dream defend the city, that nobody would listen.
(a) Four.
(b) Nine.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Ten.

4. Madrone brings Maya tea and they talk about ______before she heads off to go to Council, the city's form of governance.
(a) Tea.
(b) Lovers.
(c) The dead.
(d) Disease.

5. Madrone gives Bird a long list of those who have _____ since the last time he was in the city.
(a) Left.
(b) Died.
(c) Cried.
(d) Married.

6. In Chapter 8, Bird returns to the city and arrives at the _______ Dragon House to find Madrone in bed.
(a) Red.
(b) Black.
(c) Green.
(d) White.

7. Bird admits that he has concern about information revealed as a result of ______ while in jail in the South.
(a) Torture.
(b) Talking in his sleep.
(c) Sexual escapades.
(d) Drunken revelries.

8. The Voices participate in the discussions of the council, ______ representatives of the Four Sacred Things.
(a) Plant.
(b) Celestial.
(c) Mineral.
(d) Animal.

9. The City is referred to as ______ and is vastly different from the dystopian climate of the rest of California.
(a) The South.
(b) The North.
(c) The West.
(d) The East.

10. Although exhausted, Madrone joins Maya on the trek to the shrine of the ______ Sacred things.
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Six.

11. _____ is the name of the prisoner that was beaten close to death. Bird was able to help with his pain somewhat.
(a) Littlejohn.
(b) Bird.
(c) Angel.
(d) Hijohn.

12. Madrone realizes shortly into the healing that the disease may be too _______ for her and that she may have made a mistake.
(a) Evil.
(b) Demonic.
(c) Old.
(d) Powerful.

13. The Monsters ask Littlejohn and Bird to participate in a ______ ritual, and then to stay and recover from their travels.
(a) Solar.
(b) Full moon.
(c) New moon.
(d) Solstice.

14. Maya's romantic involvements are described in the first chapter, and she is openly ______, which is accepted in the culture of the City.
(a) Heterosexual.
(b) Homosexual.
(c) Bisexual.
(d) Polysexual.

15. The disease turns into a _______ monster that Madrone must somehow be able to defeat.
(a) Horned.
(b) Bird.
(c) Furry.
(d) Metallic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Although Bird wakes up disoriented and confused it becomes clear that he and ______ are lovers.

2. Bird crosses an area marked ________ territory and runs across of group of self-described "Monsters".

3. The Council of the City govern through the process of _______ in which all interested parties are allowed a say.

4. The other faction within the regime is called _______ and represents the religious wing.

5. Madrone goes into a trance and has a vision involving a variety of _______.

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