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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 have the Weekday Warriors done to Alaska's dorm room in “seventy-six days before”?
(a) They have littered the room with cigarette butts.
(b) They have flooded it.
(c) They have doused the room with gasoline.
(d) They have stolen Alaska's books.

2. What is described in “eighty-seven days before” as Birmingham's richest suburb?
(a) Hoover.
(b) Vestavia Hills.
(c) Homewood.
(d) Mountain Brook.

3. What is the name of the boarding school that Miles is planning to attend in “one hundred thirty-six days before"?
(a) Highland Mills Preparatory School.
(b) Mitchell White Preparatory School.
(c) Homewood Preparatory School.
(d) Culver Creek Preparatory School.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Miles describes his dorm room at the boarding school as reminding him more of what than the dorm room of his fantasies?

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

3. For how many days has it been ceaselessly raining in the beginning of “seventy-six days before”?

4. 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?

5. What does Miles say the American Civil War is called "around these parts" in “sixty-seven days before”?

Short Essay Questions

1. What "hazing" incident takes place in "one hundred twenty-seven days before"? What does the hazing consist of?

2. What is the significance of the World Religions class and instructor that Miles meets in "one hundred twenty-six days before"?

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

4. What is the value in using a first-person narrative style in Looking for Alaska? Who is the narrator?

5. What main characters are introduced when Miles arrives at the boarding school in "one hundred twenty-eight days before"? How are these characters different from Miles?

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

7. What nicknames are established for Chip and Miles in "one hundred twenty-eight days before"? What other information does Chip share with Miles in this chapter?

8. What does Chip reveal to Miles about his girlfriend after their fight in "one hundred twenty-two days before"?

9. How does Miles compare himself physically to Chip in "one hundred twenty-eight days before"? Where does Chip take Miles after they meet?

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

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