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

2. Who does Chip theorize called Alaska on the night she died in "nine days after"?
(a) Jake.
(b) Alaska's mother.
(c) Alaska's brother.
(d) Alaska's father.

3. What is Alaska's last name in the novel?
(a) Anderson.
(b) Smith.
(c) Douglass.
(d) Young.

4. What words are written in Alaska's favorite book that Miles finds in her dorm room in "seven days after"?
(a) Easy does it.
(b) Straight and fast.
(c) Slow and steady.
(d) Running forward.

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”?
(a) Lord Byron.
(b) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
(c) Robert Frost.
(d) Percy Shelley.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose final words were, according to Miles, "Strike the tent"?

2. Who confesses that they ratted out Marya in “fifty-eight days before”?

3. How many people attend Miles's going-away party in “one hundred thirty-six days before"?

4. What are Chip and Alaska doing while Takumi and Miles set fireworks on the campus as a distraction in “three days before”?

5. In the conclusion of “ninety-nine days before," Alaska says, "Sometimes you lose a battle. But" what "always wins the war"?

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