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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Alaska's boyfriend that appears for their "triple-and-a-half date" in “eighty-seven days before”?
(a) Jake.
(b) Clay.
(c) Hank.
(d) Takumi.

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

3. What is the first class that Miles attends at the boarding school in “one hundred twenty-six days before”?
(a) History class.
(b) Calculus class.
(c) French class.
(d) English class.

4. What poet does Chip describe in his rap in “one hundred ten days before” as being unafraid of "slant rhyme"?
(a) Percy Shelley.
(b) Lord Byron.
(c) William Shakespeare.
(d) Emily Dickinson.

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

6. What novel is Chip reading for his English class when Alaska visits his and Miles's dorm room in “eighty-nine days before”?
(a) To Have and Have Not.
(b) The Little Prince.
(c) The Great Gatsby.
(d) Moby Dick.

7. When the Eagle catches Miles, Alaska, Chip, and Takumi smoking by the lake in “ninety-nine days before," he tells them to be in Jury tomorrow at what time?
(a) 3:00.
(b) 4:00.
(c) 5:00.
(d) 8:00.

8. Who serves at the Judge that has the right to overturn the Jury's verdict at the boarding school, according to the narrator in “ninety-eight days before”?
(a) Dr. Hyde.
(b) The Colonel.
(c) The Eagle.
(d) Mrs. Forrester.

9. Where is Takumi from?
(a) Thailand.
(b) Brazil.
(c) Korea.
(d) Japan.

10. 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) Clay Wurtzel.
(b) Wilson Carbod.
(c) Hank Walsten.
(d) Longwell Chase.

11. What French verb meaning "to believe" does Miles's French teacher conjugate in “eighty-four days before”?
(a) Amore.
(b) Ribet.
(c) A croire.
(d) Scribet.

12. What does Miles's mother make a "small mountain of" for his going-away party in “one hundred thirty-six days before"?
(a) Pasta salad.
(b) Potato salad.
(c) Artichoke dip.
(d) Spaghetti.

13. Where does Miles Halter's family live?
(a) Louisiana.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Florida.
(d) Mississippi.

14. What character created by Arthur Miller does Chip rap about in “one hundred ten days before”?
(a) Willy Loman.
(b) Estragon.
(c) George Walters.
(d) Hamlet.

15. Where does Chip say his father lives in “one hundred twenty-eight days before”?
(a) Arizona.
(b) California.
(c) Ohio.
(d) New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Miles about to go to attend boarding school in “one hundred thirty-six days before"?

2. What nickname does Chip give to Miles when they meet?

3. What is the name of Miles's French teacher at the boarding school?

4. What are the three religious traditions that are to be covered over the year in World Religions?

5. What is the question posed for the term paper that the students are to write for their World Religions class in “seventy-six days before”?

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