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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “After,” Part 1 (pages 137-157).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is described in “eighty-seven days before” as Birmingham's richest suburb?
(a) Vestavia Hills.
(b) Homewood.
(c) Mountain Brook.
(d) Hoover.

2. Who is the starting center for Culver Creek's basketball team?
(a) Wilson Carbod.
(b) Clay Wurtzel.
(c) Hank Walsten.
(d) Longwell Chase.

3. What is the name of the "amazingly (and understandably) obese" cook at the boarding school?
(a) Mrs. Forrester.
(b) Marya.
(c) Katie.
(d) Maureen.

4. What sentence is handed down by the Jury to Alaska and Chip in “ninety-eight days before”?
(a) Suspension.
(b) 10 work hours.
(c) 20 work hours.
(d) Expulsion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Jury at Culver Creek comprised of?

2. Who invites Alaska and Miles to have Thanksgiving dinner at his house in “forty-seven days before”?

3. What is Chip's nickname in the novel?

4. 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”?

5. What does Miles say the American Civil War is called "around these parts" in “sixty-seven days before”?

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