View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does "everybody" feel regarding the pictures in the paper detailing the kidnapping?
(a) Jealous.
(b) Worried.
(c) Safe.
(d) Honored.

2. Why is Max able to visit Kevin in the ICU?
(a) A nurse snuck Max in.
(b) What Kevin wants, he gets.
(c) He began to "crash" when Max was refused entry.
(d) Gwen begged for him to be let in.

3. Why doesn't Max have to testify in court against his father?
(a) He plead guilty.
(b) Max's testimony will be taped and then played in court.
(c) He escaped again and court is postponed.
(d) He was killed in jail.

4. Why does Max's reading skills tutor think Max has never done well in school?
(a) He doesn't want to learn.
(b) All of those listed.
(c) He is stubborn.
(d) He is lazy.

5. What is on the pages of the book that Kevin gives to Max in the ICU?
(a) Pictures of knights.
(b) Nothing; it is blank.
(c) More definitions.
(d) Treasure maps.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Max's father claim Loretta is putting on Max when she is trying to help him escape?

2. Where does Max want to go when Kevin is at the doctor, after the kidnapping?

3. What does Loretta use to cut the ropes Max is tied up with?

4. After coming home from his kidnapping, what won't Gram let Max do?

5. Who always says "You can't always judge a book by the cover"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Max get his father to stop choking Loretta?

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

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

4. Why does Max's father believe that Grim and Gram thought he was not good enough for their daughter?

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

6. How does Kevin explain the act of remembering?

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

8. What happens to Kevin, at the end of Chapter 22, to send him to the hospital?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 926 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample