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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What drink does Sebastian experience for the first time to accompany his first grilled cheese sandwich ever?
(a) A ginger ale.
(b) A strawberry soda.
(c) A cola.
(d) A grape soda.

2. What does Janice Whitcomb repeatedly cite as the reason that Mr. Whitcomb is never home?
(a) He and Janice are legally separated.
(b) He spends a lot of time taking care of his ill mother.
(c) He is frequently in the hospital for heart trouble.
(d) He travels a lot for his sales job.

3. What type of shape composes Sebastian and Nana's geodesic dome?
(a) Spheres.
(b) Isoceles triangles.
(c) Equilateral triangles.
(d) Octagons.

4. What lie does Sebastian tell Nana when he returns from his first visit to the Whitcombs' house?
(a) He hates her.
(b) He has altered the dome signs.
(c) He does not want friends.
(d) He is not lonely.

5. When Sebastian calls Jared for the first time and Jared asks why he has called, what does Sebastian reveal to the reader that he then has the urge to do?
(a) Swear at Jared.
(b) Start crying.
(c) Tell Jared his life story.
(d) Hang up.

6. What item does Nana name as Sebastian's sales quota for the day the Whitcombs arrive?
(a) A glow-in-the-dark replica of their unique home.
(b) A framed photograph of their unique home.
(c) A map of their unique home.
(d) A painting of their unique home.

7. What kind of plan does Sebastian tell Jared he has when he sends an email accepting Jared's offer to a position in Jared's band?
(a) Naive.
(b) Sensible.
(c) Foolproof.
(d) Great.

8. What vision does Nana have when she is attuned to the signals of a Greater Intellect?
(a) A gyroscope.
(b) A kaleidoscope.
(c) A geoscope.
(d) A hexagonal abode.

9. Nana tells Sebastian that he can be just like Buckminster Fuller and can help people become what adjective?
(a) Enlightened.
(b) Free.
(c) Smart.
(d) Happy.

10. What reason does Nana cite for the need to get more money coming into the household?
(a) Nana's social security payments will soon be cut off.
(b) The water bill is going up.
(c) Sebastian will soon need money for a new soccer uniform.
(d) The heating bill is going up.

11. What does Nana cite as the reason that she had not attended Buckminster Fuller's funeral?
(a) She had been angry at him for dying.
(b) She had not been invited.
(c) She had been too grief-stricken.
(d) She had missed her flight.

12. What does Janice do when she drops off Sebastian at the dome for the first time that makes Sebastian wonder how often other families touch each other?
(a) Shakes his hand.
(b) Puts a hand on his shoulder.
(c) Kisses his cheek.
(d) Hugs him.

13. In Buckminster Fuller's most famous quote about religion, what had he said about God?
(a) God is dead.
(b) God is a verb, not a noun.
(c) God is within us all.
(d) God is at the heart of trigonometry.

14. What is NOT one thing Janice mentions to Sebastian as one of Jared's problems when she drops him off at the dome for the first time?
(a) His health.
(b) His lack of the ability to get along with his family members.
(c) His lack of social skills.
(d) His immaturity.

15. What is NOT one reason the Greater Intellect cites when it tells Buckminster Fuller that he should not commit suicide?
(a) He does not have the right to kill himself.
(b) He is important to the universe.
(c) He is too strong a swimmer to drown himself.
(d) He would be hurting others.

Short Answer Questions

1. What band's first album does Jared play for Sebastian just after he warns him to prepare for "having his shit rocked"? (21)

2. One of Buckminster Fuller's guiding principles by which Sebastian and Nana live says, "Every day I will give myself wholly to" (7) what?

3. What does Sebastian notice in a tree outside Jared's house the first time he visits him?

4. What object is present in the framed photographs of Nana and Sebastian's house that Sebastian says no one ever notices unless he points it out?

5. For what sole purpose does Nana keep an active phone line in the house?

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