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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what narrative perspective is the story of Looking for Alaska related?
(a) First person.
(b) Third person.
(c) Second person.
(d) Fourth person.

2. What is the name of Miles's French teacher at the boarding school?
(a) Dr. Hyde.
(b) Mrs. Forrester.
(c) Mrs. Richman.
(d) Madame O'Malley.

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

4. Approximately how many times does Miles say he's been to church in his life in “seventy-six days before”?
(a) 2 times.
(b) 10 times.
(c) 20 times.
(d) 4 times.

5. What does Alaska take Miles to do when they are kicked out of World Religions class in “one hundred ten days before”?
(a) Smoke marijuana.
(b) Look for four-leaf clovers.
(c) Skip stones at the creek.
(d) Go skateboarding.

6. What color hair does Alaska's boyfriend have?
(a) Auburn.
(b) Black.
(c) Brown.
(d) Blond.

7. What is the nickname of the dorm supervisor at Miles's boarding school?
(a) The Mortician.
(b) The Eagle.
(c) The Inmate.
(d) The Hawk.

8. Miles describes his dorm room at the boarding school as reminding him more of what than the dorm room of his fantasies?
(a) A hospital.
(b) A prison.
(c) A mausoleum.
(d) A morgue.

9. How many people attend Miles's going-away party in “one hundred thirty-six days before"?
(a) 5.
(b) 10.
(c) 7.
(d) 2.

10. Where does Alaska ask Miles to go study with her during their lunch break in "one hundred one days before"?
(a) Burger King.
(b) McDonald's.
(c) Sonic.
(d) Her dorm room.

11. What television channel do Miles and his parents watch after his going-away party dissolves in “one hundred thirty-six days before"?
(a) The History Channel.
(b) The Nature Channel.
(c) CNN.
(d) The Sci-Fi Network.

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

13. Who invites Alaska and Miles to have Thanksgiving dinner at his house in “forty-seven days before”?
(a) Kevin.
(b) Chip.
(c) Jake.
(d) Takumi.

14. The term paper that the students are to write for their World Religions class is worth how much of their grade?
(a) 100%.
(b) 25%.
(c) 75%.
(d) 50%.

15. How many basketball games in a row does Chip say he's been consecutively kicked out of in “one hundred nine days before”?
(a) 16.
(b) 11.
(c) 21.
(d) 37.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Miles and Alaska drink as they look at the stars in “fifty-two days before”?

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

3. What grade does Miles receive on his precalc test in “one hundred days before”?

4. Miles learns in his World Religions class that around the time of Jesus, some Roman coins had a picture of the Emperor Augustus on them with what words inscribed underneath?

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

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