View a FREE sample

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what grade was Caden when he describes the mentally ill kid that banged his head in Chapter 58?

2. What position on the ship does Carlyle hold?

3. What is the title of Chapter 1?

4. Where does the protagonist describe his dream taking place in Chapter 3?

5. What is the obsession that the narrator describes taking over him in Chapter 44?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Caden describe his past on the pirate ship in Chapter 4?

2. How does Caden describe his job on the ship in Chapter 15? What is the job that most of the crew has?

3. What is the White Plastic Kitchen? How is it described in Chapter 10?

4. What observations does Max make regarding Caden's behavior in Chapter 51?

5. What is Carlyle's position on the ship? What is his relationship to Caden?

6. Who is Ms. Sassel and why does she speak with Caden in Chapter 43?

7. What advice does Caden's father give him regarding the kid at school whom Caden thinks wants to kill him in Chapter 8?

8. How does Calliope respond when Caden compares her to the Statue of Liberty in Chapter 48?

9. What does the setting called "the crow's nest" represent symbolically?

10. Who are the crew members that have been called for the mission in Chapter 35? How are they described?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the settings of the pirate ship and the setting of Seaview Memorial Hospital in the novel. How are these settings similar? How are they different? What correlations exist between these two settings?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Caden's relationship with Callie in the novel. How is Callie represented in Caden's alternate reality? In what ways do Caden and Callie help one another in their recovery? What happens to Callie?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the theme of stigmas, stereotypes, and assumptions about mental illness and the treatment of mental illness in the novel. How does the author explore different cultural and historical views of mental illness? How did these views differ? How does the novel serve to confront stigmas?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 914 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample