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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from "twenty days after" refers to a cliff with a vertical, nearly vertical, or overhanging face?

2. What does the police officer say was in Alaska's backseat when she died in "thirteen days after"?

3. What novel is Miles reading when Chip awakens in the beginning of "eighty-three days after"?

4. Where does Lara tell the Eagle she is driving to visit a friend in “three days before”?

5. What kind of vehicle does Maxx arrive at the school in, in "one hundred two days after"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Chip reveal to Miles and Takumi after his phone call with Jake in "twenty-nine days after"?

2. Who knocks on Miles and Chip's dorm room door in the beginning of "the day after"? Where are they told to go?

3. How does Miles's father assist in the development of the prank in "eighty-four days after"?

4. Where do Miles and his friends go to discuss their plans for the pre-prank in "three days before"? How do they get past the Eagle?

5. How would you compare the narrative focus and tone of "Before" and "After" in Looking for Alaska?

6. How do Miles and his friends begin the pre-prank in "three days before"? How does Miles participate?

7. What epiphany does Miles come to during his World Religions class in "fifty-one days after"?

8. How does Miles explain his complicated feelings regarding Lara in "thirty-seven days after"?

9. What information does Chip reveal to Takumi in "twenty-eight days after"? How does Takumi respond?

10. How have Miles's thoughts about Alaska and her death evolved in "twenty-one days after"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the theme of loyalty in Looking for Alaska. How is this theme developed through the characters of Miles, Alaska, Chip, and Takumi? How does the author develop this theme through the novel’s setting? What does loyalty mean to the characters in the story?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the setting of the novel and author John Green’s source material that he drew from in establishing this setting. Where in Alabama is the Culver Creek Preparatory School located? What clues in the text indicate the time period in which the story takes place? What are the social, cultural, and economic factors within the setting of Birmingham?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the author’s structural choices in developing the plot of Looking for Alaska. How is the novel divided into sections? What do the structural elements of the novel contribute to its themes? How would the story differ if it were structured differently?

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