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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 Mark show John?

2. What happens when the female Garde kills a Mogadorian scout?

3. What does a hall monitor tell John in Home Economics class?

4. Where does Henri hide the chest?

5. What does John tell Sarah he needs to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does John learn with the aid of fire and how does he learn a painful lesson?

2. What happens after John is called out of Home Economics class?

3. How do Henri, John and Number Six get out of the school building and where do they go and who attacks them?

4. What emergency occurs at Mark's party?

5. What story does Henri tell John about a girl in Argentina?

6. How do Sarah and John meet up with the rest of the party goers?

7. What does John do without thinking when he is in Mr. Harris' office?

8. Where does John send Six and where does Six tell John to go?

9. What happens when John runs back to the school to find Sarah?

10. What does Six explain to John about why and how she is there?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

John's third ring appears while he is out with friends on a boat, and it forces their immediate relocation. It was the longest they had stayed anywhere since arriving on Earth - nine months. Now, he burns his identification and begins again, this time calling himself John Smith. He lives with Henri, his Cêpan, and this move will take them to Paradise, Ohio. John knows he must blend in, which includes doing everything that normal fifteen year old boys must do. That includes going to school. Blending in is difficult at times and John's first day is one of those times.

1. Discuss how the circumstances of John's life, having to hide and move all the time, might affect him as a teenager. Use examples from your life and the book to support your answer.

2. Compare what you think might be John's feelings about being an alien from another planet with what you think might be the feelings of a human who has to move to another country because of persecution in his/her own country on earth. How would the situation be similar and different? Use examples from your life and the book to support your answer.

3. What do you think are some of the difficulties John might have blending in at school and how might those difficulties compare to a foreign student trying to fit in an American school? Use examples from your life and the book to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Often, authors will write about "what they know," and sometimes knowing a little about the author makes the books more interesting. Discuss the following:

1. Research and give a brief biographical sketch of Pittacus Lore.

2. What in Lore's background may have helped him in writing I Am Number Four? What may have influenced the way he depicts various characters and scenes?

3. Do you think there is always some of the author's own life in his/her novels? Why or why not? Give examples.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss one of the following:

1. Trace and analyze the theme of growth in I Am Number Four. Consider the following questions as you write: What characters are most concerned with growth? Why? What are some symbols of growth? Symbols of rigidity? What characters seem rigid?

2. Trace and analyze the theme of courage in I Am Number Four. Which characters struggle with this issue? Why? Which characters seem to possess courage? Why?

3. Trace and analyze the theme of death in I Am Number Four. Consider the death of Lorien as a type of death and possibly John having to keep moving as small deaths in his life.

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