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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 Kid remember that another kid poured on his head on the school bus?
2. How many protestors line the highway when the Author comes to Bolton, North Carolina?
3. What color hair does the woman have who gets her book signed by the Author and who says, "Hell of a show" (137)?
4. When the author was nine, what was on the walls of the house where he lived?
5. What type of movies does the Kid say he would watch on Sundays with his dad when his mother was at church?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the Author remember about his father?
2. How does the Author describe the scene as he and Sharon walk to the Bolton Town Hall?
3. Why does Sharon call the Author when he is having dinner with a woman named Kelly in San Francisco?
4. What does a minister tell the people of Bolton who gathered to hear the Author?
5. Why did the Author never fit in Bolton?
6. What does the Author see as he and Sharon drive into Bolton?
7. How does Soot's mother punish him and why?
8. Why does Kelly go out with the Author?
9. What does Soot see and feel when his father dies?
10. What is the Kid's favorite animal and why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
A writer’s voice is his individual writing style. A writer’s message is what he has to say or share about a subject. What conflicting advice does the Author receive about his voice and his message in his writing? How does conflicting advice make him struggle and why?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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