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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. Where does Noah's brother Joey go for the summer?

2. What answer does Mrs. Olinski give most often about how she chose her team?

3. What does the narrator say the chicken-and-egg discussion ended with?

4. What does the narrator say there had not been at the Bowl, unlike football Bowls?

5. Which subject is Mrs. Olinski going to be teaching?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the relationship between Mrs. Olinski and Mrs. Draper.

2. What does the reader find out about Mrs. Olinski's first few minutes in class that he or she didn't know before the beginning of chapter 4?

3. What does Mrs. Olinski say about how she chose the members of her Academic Bowl team?

4. Explain how Mrs. Olinski goes about gaining an impression of Ethan.

5. Describe the differences between The Souls and the team from Maxwell.

6. How does Noah react to his mom telling him to write a B&B letter? How does she get him to write the letter anyway?

7. What question does Ethan ask during The Souls' latest tea party, and what does each member answer?

8. What chicken-and-egg discussion do The Souls get into with Mrs. Olinski in the first chapter?

9. What does Julian do to help Ginger prepare for her audition? Give a detailed answer.

10. Describe how Ethan feels about Julian when the two first meet.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the main characters from "The View from Saturday" and explain how that character has been on a journey, and what that character found on their journey.

Essay Topic 2

Explain what Nadia tells her father that the turtles do between the time they hatch and the time they mate. Then, describe how Nadia herself is like the turtles.

Essay Topic 3

Explain how the topic of courtesy repeats itself throughout the novel and how the idea of courtesy helps the reader to see each of the characters.

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