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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. After the Author escapes the man who is chasing him, what floor of the hotel does he go to?
2. Since meeting the Kid at breakfast, how many cities has the Author been to in Florida?
3. What was the dead boy wearing in a photograph that the media keeps showing?
4. How much is the price of the Author's room when he is at a hotel where he was chased by an angry husband and slept with a desk clerk?
5. Who does the Author say were the worst customers when he worked for the cell phone company?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where is a little boy at the beginning of the book and what is he doing?
2. What are the Author's thoughts about his mother?
3. What does Jack, the media trainer, say to the Author when they meet?
4. What does William want to say to his son about the world they live in?
5. How does the Author describe the skin of the kid who joins him for breakfast in the second chapter of the book?
6. How does the Author prove who he is when he needs to get his room key in the second chapter of the book?
7. What does Jack tell the Author to not write about and why?
8. How does the Author escape from a man who is chasing him at a hotel?
9. What happens as the boy tries to be invisible at the beginning of the book?
10. What does Sharon show Jack and the Author on her phone during the media training, and how long does it take them to understand what they are seeing?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Soot can make himself disappear. How does Soot feel when he disappears and becomes Unseen? What does invisibility give him or do for him?
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
Both the Author and Soot rely heavily upon imagination. Why do the Author and Soot rely heavily upon imagination? How does imagination serve as an escape and a survival mechanism for them?
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