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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 is sitting empty on top of the "old bat's" television- in the apartment that Max's father takes him to hide out?
(a) A fruit bowl.
(b) A candy bowl.
(c) A cereal box.
(d) A fish bowl.

2. What does Max claim is one of Gram's specialties; it just makes everything better?
(a) Mint sauce.
(b) Raspberry jam.
(c) Cranberry relish.
(d) Homemade butter.

3. What does Max's father claim is "another crime against humanity"?
(a) Tearing up his letters.
(b) Hating him.
(c) Sending him to jail.
(d) Lying to Max.

4. What shape of box is Max's present from Kevin wrapped in?
(a) Pyramid.
(b) Octogon.
(c) Sphere.
(d) Cylinder.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the electronic gear Kevin is hooked up to in the hospital?

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

3. What does Kevin ask for during Christmas Eve dinner that makes Gram laugh so hard that she has a coughing fit?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Grim say that his father gave him for Christmas?

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

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

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

8. According to Max's father, what does Hell look like?

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

10. How does Kevin define remembering?

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