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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 does the girl take from the refrigerator in Chapter 10?
(a) Milk.
(b) Juice.
(c) Yogurt.
(d) Eggs.
2. What color hair is Carlyle described as having in Chapter 16?
(a) Blond.
(b) Gray.
(c) Black.
(d) Red.
3. What is Chapter 2's title?
(a) "Behind Her Back."
(b) "Better for This."
(c) "Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum."
(d) "Forever Down There."
4. The narrator describes his visit with the therapist in Chapter 64, saying, "How do you trust a therapist when" what?
(a) "There are bars on all the windows."
(b) "Even his secretary can't remember your name."
(c) "Even his windows are a lie."
(d) "Even the plant in his waiting room is a lie."
5. What does Caden regularly check the news for in Chapter 18?
(a) Chinese earthquakes.
(b) Murders.
(c) Obituaries.
(d) California earthquakes.
Short Answer Questions
1. How old is the protagonist of the novel?
2. From what narrative point of view is Chapter 1 related?
3. What does the parrot demand that Caden do in the beginning of Chapter 25?
4. What magazines does the narrator describe his parents leafing through in the waiting room in Chapter 64?
5. What word from the title of Chapter 38 refers to is an elongated appendage from the head of an animal?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Calliope respond when Caden compares her to the Statue of Liberty in Chapter 48?
2. What advice does Caden's father give him regarding the kid at school whom Caden thinks wants to kill him in Chapter 8?
3. How does Caden describe the transformation of the pirate ship in Chapter 47?
4. What information does Caden relate about the Marianas Deep in Chapter 35?
5. What experience does Caden describe when his dad was driving the car on the way to school a few years ago in Chapter 53: "Hindsight at my Feet"?
6. How does Caden perform on his science exam in Chapter 30? Why?
7. How would you describe the narrative style in Chapter 1? Why does the author employ this narrative perspective here?
8. What metaphor does the narrator make in describing the donation bucket at the mall in Chapter 7?
9. What are Caden and the Captain discussing in Chapter 2?
10. What is Carlyle's position on the ship? What is his relationship to Caden?
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