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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 is Demon’s first meal at the Crickson farm?

2. After whose lunch does Demon hunger?

3. What is the subject of Demon’s fifth-grade history class?

4. With which of the following does the novel open?

5. In what industry had Mr. Peg been injured?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the novel, what is a joree bath?

2. What is Demon’s idea for Earthly Bads?

3. Why does Mr. Golly make much of handing people food?

4. Why does the narrator note he was unlikely to survive birth?

5. How does Demon know he reaches Murder Valley on a Sunday?

6. Why does Demon decline to remind Maggot of his birthday?

7. Why is Demon obliged to catch a school bus on the side of the highway?

8. Why is Demon not to be reassigned to Crickson after leaving the McCobbs?

9. How does Fast Forward justify defrauding the other foster-children at the Crickson farm?

10. What does a young Demon posit is the reason teenage boys want their own vehicles?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How reliable is the narrator of the novel? What in the text indicates that reliability, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

At one point, Demon observes that “It’s safer knowing more about people than they know about you” (200). Is the observation accurate? What in the novel and in your experience suggests as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

The protagonist remarks that “A kid is a terrible thing to be, in charge of nothing. If you get past that and grown, it’s easiest to forget about the misery and pretend you knew all along what you were doing. Assuming you’ve ended up someplace you’re proud to be. And if not, easier to forget the whole thing, period” (7). Does the novel support or belie the remarks? What in the novel shows as much, and how does it do so?

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