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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. What are the three religious traditions that are to be covered over the year in World Religions?
2. Who is the teacher of Miles's World Religions class at the boarding school?
3. Who is the starting center for Culver Creek's basketball team?
4. Chip thinks that the sizable knot on Miles's forehead looks like a topographical map of what country in “eighty-four days before”?
5. When Alaska arrives outside the Jury room in “ninety-eight days before," she tells Miles that she has now been caught smoking how many times at the school?
Short Essay Questions
1. What kinds of quotations does Miles memorize regularly in the novel? Why is this significant to the story?
2. What is the significance of the World Religions class and instructor that Miles meets in "one hundred twenty-six days before"?
3. What is the value in using a first-person narrative style in Looking for Alaska? Who is the narrator?
4. 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?
5. What does Miles realize about his previous encounter with the Jury in "sixty-seven days before"?
6. What does Alaska come to inform Miles in his dorm room in "eighty-nine days before"?
7. What is Alaska's response when Miles asks her how she got the name "Alaska" in "one hundred days before"?
8. What do Miles, Alaska, Takumi, and Chip do at their hideout in "one hundred ten days before"?
9. Where is Miles treated for his injury in "eighty-seven days before"? What information is related to him at this setting?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Examine the social, cultural, economic, and religious aspects of the setting of the novel. Consider how resetting the story in a location like New York City or Los Angeles might change the plot, themes, or characters. What mannerisms and behaviors in the narrative are connected specifically to the setting? How would you compare the characters and themes in this novel with other novels set in the South?
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 theme of loyalty in Looking for Alaska. How is this theme developed through the characters of Miles, Alaska, Chip, and Takumi? How does the author develop this theme through the novel’s setting? What does loyalty mean to the characters in the story?
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