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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 Max assume has happened, given that the nurse is crying after he goes "nuts"?
(a) That something happened to Kevin.
(b) That he hit her.
(c) That she is about to lose her job.
(d) That she is worried about him.

2. What color shirt does Gwen wear to Christmas dinner at Max's house?
(a) Cream.
(b) Green.
(c) Navy.
(d) Red.

3. Who does Max run into on the front lawn of the hospital?
(a) Tony D.
(b) Grim.
(c) Loretta.
(d) Gwen.

4. Who, according to Mrs. Addison in Chapter 14, is requesting Max's presence?
(a) His father.
(b) His uncle.
(c) Gram.
(d) Gwen.

5. What adjective does Max use to describe Kevin's voice when he is in the ICU?
(a) Faint.
(b) Weak.
(c) Whistley.
(d) Croaky.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Grim say Max inherited from his father?

2. What does Max's father compare the old boarded up building to once he and Max get into it?

3. What does Kevin declare "is a toxic waste of time"?

4. Where does Mrs. Donelli wait for Max to go before asking him questions that she would no longer ask him in class?

5. Once in the burned out basement, what does Max's father tie him to?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Max do when Mrs.Donalli asks him a question in class?

4. What do both Kevin and Max get each other for Christmas?

5. What does Max do, on the hospital lawn, given that he is not able to go in and visit Kevin?

6. How does Kevin explain the act of remembering?

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

8. Why does Max believe that Mrs. Donalli is finally getting used to him and Kevin?

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

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

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