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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. Once in the "old bat's" apartment, how does Max's father tell him to start acting?
(a) Dumb.
(b) Regular.
(c) Important.
(d) Smart.

2. What does Max's father claim Loretta is putting on Max when she is trying to help him escape?
(a) Her dirty hands.
(b) Her sickness.
(c) Her filth.
(d) Her germs.

3. Who is pictured in the picture on the wall, the one with the eyes that follow "you" around?
(a) Elvis.
(b) Dogs playing poker.
(c) Mary mother of Jesus.
(d) Jesus.

4. Where does Mrs. Donelli wait for Max to go before asking him questions that she would no longer ask him in class?
(a) Study hall.
(b) The hallways.
(c) The lunchroom.
(d) On the steps leaving school.

5. What does Gram get from Max for Christmas?
(a) A necklace.
(b) A pair of socks.
(c) A bracelet.
(d) A ring.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to Grim, would his father write on a piece of paper and put into his stocking when he was a kid?

2. How many presents does Gram allow everyone to open on Christmas Eve?

3. What does Loretta call Max right before his father begins choking her?

4. What does Max say Mrs. Donelli is "admitting" about Kevin, by October?

5. What does Grim tell Max led him to realize that Max's father had him?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Kevin define remembering?

2. What does Max's father say is the first thing that Max must do when talking to him in the old lady's apartment?

3. How does Mr. Meehan explain Max's inability to do well in school?

4. What does Max's father do to ensure that Max does not escape from the abandoned basement?

5. What happens that makes Max go crazy at the hospital?

6. What happens to force Max to believe that "spooky stuff" happens on all Friday the Thirteenths?

7. In what way is Kevin's thirteenth birthday two birthdays in one?

8. What causes Max to pull out the empty book one year after Kevin's death?

9. Why does Kevin think that his tracheotomy is cool?

10. Why does Loretta come to the abandoned basement to rescue Max?

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