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

2. What does Max's father use to tie over his mouth so that he cannot yell for help?

3. What does Max take with him to the hospital to visit Kevin?

4. What tune does Kevin play on his tracheotomy?

5. What does Loretta claim that Max's father is a "genius for"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Grim justify the telling of "tales"?

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

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

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

6. What does Max's father claim is a "crime against humanity"?

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

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

9. How does Kevin explain the act of remembering?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Family comes to mean more to Max by the end of the book given all that he has been through. Discuss what Max comes to learn about the importance of family. In what ways does Max find out family is important? What did Max think about family before the book ended? What events changed Max's mind about the importance of family?

Essay Topic 2

The book is full of both internal and external conflicts. Chose an internal and external conflict for both Max and Kevin. Describe in detail the conflict and why it exists as a conflict for the character.

Essay Topic 3

Max seems to be a very good judge of character. Choose one of the subordinate characters (Loretta, Iggy, Ken Kane) and describe how Max's initial feelings about the character came to be true. Alternatively, Max ended up being wrong about two of the characters, why were his initial feelings about the character false?

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