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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 is the name of Max's reading skills tutor?
2. What shape of box is Max's present from Kevin wrapped in?
3. What does Max's father compare cops to in the beginning of Chapter 19?
4. Who does Max become when he finds out about Kevin's death?
5. Where does Max put the book Kevin gives to him in the hospital?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Grim say that his father gave him for Christmas?
2. How does Kevin explain the act of remembering?
3. How is Kevin dressed for the Christmas Eve dinner at Max's house?
4. Why does Kevin think that his tracheotomy is cool?
5. What does Max do, on the hospital lawn, given that he is not able to go in and visit Kevin?
6. Why does Max's father believe that Grim and Gram thought he was not good enough for their daughter?
7. In what way is Kevin's thirteenth birthday two birthdays in one?
8. How does Max get his father to stop choking Loretta?
9. Describe the apartment that Max and his father hide out in.
10. What happens to force Max to believe that "spooky stuff" happens on all Friday the Thirteenths?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Even though Kevin was different from Max, he was enamored by Kevin from the first time that he saw him. Why was Max enamored by Kevin? What things did Max find fascinating about Kevin? Be specific and then explain your findings.
Essay Topic 2
What is your favorite quote from the book? Why is this your favorite quote? Who says it? How do you relate to the quote? Explain in detail.
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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