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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. How old is the boy sitting in a small living room in Carolina?
2. When the Author speaks to the Kid in a bathroom on page 100, when does he say was the worst murder rate?
3. As the Author is running from a big man who caught the narrator with his wife, how old is the woman who steps out of the elevator?
4. Where is the rest home where Daddy Henry lives?
5. What is a boy's mother wearing as they sit in a small living room in Carolina?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does William want to say to his son about the world they live in?
2. What type of dress is the boy's mother wearing at the beginning of the book?
3. Since the Author's book tour in the Midwest, where has he been?
4. How does the Author escape from a man who is chasing him at a hotel?
5. What happens when Soot's father hears him crying in the night?
6. Where is a little boy at the beginning of the book and what is he doing?
7. How does the Author describe the skin of the kid who joins him for breakfast in the second chapter of the book?
8. What happens as the boy tries to be invisible at the beginning of the book?
9. What happens the last time that Soot ever sees Daddy Henry?
10. What does Jack, the media trainer, say to the Author when they meet?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Mood is an element that authors use to evoke feelings in readers through the use of descriptive language. Mood is the overall feeling that readers have when reading a story. What is the overall mood of Hell of a Book?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
The Author has pleasant memories of things he did with his father. What type of relationship did the author and his father have?
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