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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. The chapter "one hundred one days before" begins on the first morning of what month?

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

3. 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”?

4. Where does Miles believe that Lara was born in "one hundred one days before"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How has the weather changed in "eighty-four days before"? How has this affected Miles's relationships?

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

4. What information does Miles learn from Takumi in "sixty-seven days before"?

5. What does Alaska come to inform Miles in his dorm room in "eighty-nine days before"?

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

7. Who helps in tutoring Miles and several other students for an exam in "one hundred one days before"? Is the tutoring effective?

8. What do Miles, Alaska, Takumi, and Chip do at their hideout in "one hundred ten days before"?

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

10. Whose dorm room do Alaska and Miles break into in "fifty-one days before"? Why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the genre of Looking for Alaska and the tone established in “one hundred thirty-six days before." How are “genre” and “tone” defined? Which of the following words would you use to describe the tone of this chapter: formal, informal, intimate, solemn, somber, playful, serious, ironic, or condescending? What factors contribute to this tone?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the school dynamics, relationships, and hierarchies established in the first chapters of the novel. Who are the “Weekday Warriors” and why does Chip dislike this group of students? What is Mr. Starnes’s role at the school? Who is “the Jury”?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the motif of labyrinths in Looking for Alaska. Where is the concept of labyrinths first introduced in the novel? What is the significance of this reference? How does this motif relate to the novel’s themes?

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