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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 the Author get at a bar when he is on a date with Kelly in San Francisco?

2. On page 201, how long has the Kid been with the Author in every city?

3. What is the Author allergic to?

4. In San Francisco, how long does the Author talk about Hell of a Book?

5. Where does the cop live who shot William?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the Author and the Kid do when they go to Pennsylvania?

2. What does Soot see and feel when his father dies?

3. What does the Author do after Kelly?

4. Who asks the Author to autograph a book somewhere over West Texas, and what does he say about the fear that the Author has?

5. How does watching Kelly work affect the Author, and why does he leave suddenly?

6. How does Soot's mother punish him and why?

7. What does the Author see as he and Sharon drive into Bolton?

8. Why did the Author never fit in Bolton?

9. What is the Kid's favorite animal and why?

10. What does the Author tell the Kid about fear?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A character arc is the inner journey of a character in a book. What is The Author’s character arc, and what situations and characters influence his growth and transformation?

Essay Topic 2

The Author has pleasant memories of things he did with his father. What type of relationship did the author and his father have?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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