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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 Marshall do when he is asked whether he saw Chad after school on the previous day?

2. Which president is Tamaya's report about?

3. When Tamaya's mother first sees Tamaya's rash, what does she mistake it for?

4. When Tamaya shows Marshall her rash, what is is response?

5. What grade is Tamaya in?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the changes that occur in Tamaya's rash overnight in Chapter 12.

2. Why has Chad come to Woodridge Academy?

3. What ideas are conveyed by the description of the history of the building Woodridge Academy is housed in?

4. When Ms. Filbert was assigning the reports about presidents, how did her behavior contradict her words?

5. When he is lying away on the night after Chad's attack, what does Marshall decide is his best hope for a final ending to the situation with Chad?

6. What does Tamaya and her mother's nighttime routine communicate about their relationship?

7. What irony does Jonathan Fitzman see in the senators' questions about the ergonyms escaping into the environment?

8. When he is lying awake on the night after Chad's attack, what two possible endings does Marshall imagine for a scenario where he tries to defend Tamaya from Chad?

9. What does Tamaya rub in Chad's face, and how does Chad react?

10. When other students speak up for Marshall during Mrs. Thaxton's questioning, what does this reveal about the situation with Chad turning everyone against Marshall?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Sachar use both flashback and flash-forward in this narrative? What is the difference between these techniques and the purposes they serve in this story? What similar purposes do they serve? Write an essay that analyzes how and why Sachar uses both techniques. Support your arguments with evidence drawn from throughout the book. If you use quoted evidence, remember to cite it in MLA format.

Essay Topic 2

When you began reading this novel, you made a guess about whether Tamaya would be a static or dynamic character. What kind of a person is she at the beginning of this book? How do you know? What kind of a person is she at the end? How do you know? Does this make her a static or a dynamic character? After you have an answer to these questions, write an essay that makes a claim about whether Tamaya is a static or dynamic character and that uses evidence from the beginning, middle, and end of the text to support your claim. Remember that if you use quoted evidence, this should be cited in MLA format.

Essay Topic 3

What message is conveyed through the contrast in settings in this text? Choose two settings and write an essay that compares and contrasts them and then makes a claim about what ideas are being transmitted by these similarities and differences. As you structure this essay, think about whether you want to write all about one setting and then all about the other, or whether you want to discuss similarities in one part of the essay and differences in a separate part of the essay. In either case, end your essay with a paragraph that shows what point Sachar is trying to make by creating these two separate settings. Support your ideas with evidence drawn from throughout the text, and remember that if you use quoted evidence, this should be cited in MLA format.

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