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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “Before,” Part 4 (pages 55-66).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many basketball games in a row does Chip say he's been consecutively kicked out of in “one hundred nine days before”?
(a) 37.
(b) 16.
(c) 21.
(d) 11.

2. What is the Jury at Culver Creek comprised of?
(a) Six students.
(b) Six faculty members.
(c) Twelve faculty members.
(d) Twelve students.

3. When his parents leave him at the boarding school, Miles promises to call them once a week on which day?
(a) Monday.
(b) Sunday.
(c) Friday.
(d) Saturday.

4. What is Chip's last name?
(a) Jackson.
(b) Smith.
(c) Martin.
(d) Perry.

5. Who is the one-armed kindergartner that Miles describes as beating him at T-ball when he was in third grade in “one hundred nine days before”?
(a) Hank Walsten.
(b) Longwell Chase.
(c) Clay Wurtzel.
(d) Wilson Carbod.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sentence is handed down by the Jury to Alaska and Chip in “ninety-eight days before”?

2. Who is the student in Miles's biology class that participated in throwing him in the lake?

3. What is the name of the "amazingly (and understandably) obese" cook at the boarding school?

4. What is the name of the boarding school that Miles is planning to attend in “one hundred thirty-six days before"?

5. Who is the author of the poem that Chip quotes with the line "Miles to go before I sleep" in “one hundred twenty-eight days before”?

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