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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 time does the media trainer finally show up for the Author's training?
2. When the Author was a teen, what would he eat on Friday and Saturday nights when he worked on his writing?
3. How old is the boy sitting in a small living room in Carolina?
4. After the argument on page 54, how many times does Soot see his grandfather again?
5. When the Author goes to the bathroom during the media training, who is already there?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens as the boy tries to be invisible at the beginning of the book?
2. Who is Sharon?
3. What happens the last time that Soot ever sees Daddy Henry?
4. Where did the Author work before his book sold?
5. How does William die?
6. What does the Author say about the book he has written?
7. What are the Author's thoughts about his mother?
8. What type of dress is the boy's mother wearing at the beginning of the book?
9. What does Jack, the media trainer, say to the Author when they meet?
10. What does Jack tell the Author to not write about and why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The Author reverts to his usual behavior after seeing Kelly. Why does the Author revert to his usual behavior after seeing Kelly? What does his reliance upon routines reveal about him and being a creature of habit?
Essay Topic 2
What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What points of view are used in Hell of a Book? How do these points of view influence what readers know about events and characters? How does changing the point of view help readers connect with and understand characters?
Essay Topic 3
The Author is a daydreamer. How are the Author’s daydreams different from other people’s daydreams? How and why do his daydreams and imagination cause him to struggle with reality?
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