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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Chip say Alaska is from in “one hundred twenty-seven days before”?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) New Hope.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Vine Station.

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

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

5. Where does Chip live with his mother when he's not in boarding school?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) New York.
(c) New Hope.
(d) Los Angeles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first class that Miles attends at the boarding school in “one hundred twenty-six days before”?

2. 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”?

3. How many fifty-minute class periods do the students have per school day at the boarding school?

4. How tall is Miles said to be in the novel?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What conversation takes place between Dr. Hyde and Miles in "one hundred eight days before"?

2. What do Miles and Alaska discuss when Alaska visits Miles's dorm room in "one hundred twenty-eight days before"?

3. What does Alaska tell Miles when she awakens him in the night in "fifty-eight days before"? How does Miles respond?

4. What friend of Chip's does Miles meet in the cafeteria in "one hundred twenty-seven days before"? What does this character discuss with Chip?

5. What kinds of quotations does Miles memorize regularly in the novel? Why is this significant to the story?

6. What is the topic announced for the term paper in Miles's World Religions class in "seventy-six days before"?

7. What do Miles, Takumi, Alaska, and Chip get in trouble for in "ninety-nine days before"? How do they respond?

8. How and why does Miles become injured during the "triple-date" that Alaska has arranged in "eighty-seven days before"?

9. Why is Chip kicked out of the basketball game in "one hundred nine days before"? What does he tell Miles about his history at the basketball games?

10. Where does Miles go after the hazing incident in "one hundred twenty-seven days before"? What responses is he greeted with?

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