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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. Where is Miles about to go to attend boarding school in “one hundred thirty-six days before"?
(a) Maryland.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Connecticut.
(d) Mississippi.

2. 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) 11.
(c) 21.
(d) 16.

3. What is Chip's nickname in the novel?
(a) Pudge.
(b) The Coward.
(c) The Colonel.
(d) The Eagle.

4. What book does Miles spend the day in bed reading in “ninety-nine days before”?
(a) To Have and Have Not.
(b) The Sun Also Rises.
(c) The Great Gatsby.
(d) Ethan Frome.

5. When Alaska arrives outside the Jury room in “ninety-eight days before," she tells Miles that she has now been caught smoking how many times at the school?
(a) 10.
(b) 7.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Alaska's last name in the novel?

2. What television channel do Miles and his parents watch after his going-away party dissolves in “one hundred thirty-six days before"?

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

4. What is the name that Alaska has given to her car?

5. What is the name of Chip's girlfriend in the novel?

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