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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “After,” Part 2 (pages 157-173).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Buddhist doctrine "basically says that people don't have eternal souls," according to Miles?
(a) Karma.
(b) Reincarnation.
(c) Namaste.
(d) Anatta.

2. Whose final words were, according to Miles, "Strike the tent"?
(a) Percy Shelley's.
(b) Robert E. Lee's.
(c) Abraham Lincoln's.
(d) Alexander Pope's.

3. How many fifty-minute class periods do the students have per school day at the boarding school?
(a) 5.
(b) 6.
(c) 12.
(d) 9.

4. Who supposedly said as his last words, "I've had eighteen straight whiskeys. I do believe that's a record"?
(a) Ulysses S. Grant.
(b) John F. Kennedy.
(c) Dylan Thomas.
(d) Robert E. Lee.

5. Whose biography is Miles reading when Chip returns in “four days after”?
(a) Meriwether Lewis's.
(b) Peter Brooks'.
(c) Napoleon Bonaparte's.
(d) John F. Kennedy's.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far away from campus was Alaska when she died?

2. What French verb meaning "to believe" does Miles's French teacher conjugate in “eighty-four days before”?

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

4. What does Takumi call the hat that he puts on as he and Miles set out to start the pre-prank in “three days before”?

5. Where does Alaska ask Miles to go study with her during their lunch break in "one hundred one days before"?

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