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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. What does Max's father claim "those people did" to him, when he was telling Max about all the injustice he has faced?

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

3. According to Max, what food does Kevin love?

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

5. What did students from Max and Kevin's school draw on the pictures from the paper?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Kevin explain the act of remembering?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How is Kevin dressed for the Christmas Eve dinner at Max's house?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

It is not until Max meets, and befriends, Kevin that he comes to excel in school. Why did it take his friendship with Kevin to pull Max out of his educational "box"? What does Kevin do that helps Max intellectually?

Essay Topic 2

Why do you think Max feared his father so much? Name, and discuss, two reasons why Max was afraid of his father. What is the fear? What is the fear based upon? Was the fear realistic? Why? Why not?

Essay Topic 3

Max finds himself trying to outrun his past and his present. Why are people afraid of Max? (Hint: there are two main reasons; one from his past and one from his present.) Discuss a reason from both the past and the present and explain fully why it makes people afraid of Max.

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