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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. Who is the starting center for Culver Creek's basketball team?

2. Where does Chip live with his mother when he's not in boarding school?

3. Who is the dead American President that Kevin names for Miles to say his last words, in “one hundred nine days before”?

4. What have the Weekday Warriors done to Alaska's dorm room in “seventy-six days before”?

5. Who is the "tiny blonde with rectangular glasses" that attends Miles's going-away party in “one hundred thirty-six days before"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is Alaska's response when Miles asks her how she got the name "Alaska" in "one hundred days before"?

5. 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?

6. How does Miles indicate those who were involved in the hazing incident in "one hundred twenty-six days before"?

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

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

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare the family lives of Miles, Alaska, and Chip in the narrative. How are they similar? How are they different? What do you think family means to Miles? How has his sense of family shifted since his arrival at Culver Creek? How does this theme relate to the themes of loyalty, philosophy, and religion in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Discuss the character of Dr. Hyde and his World Religions class. What are the objectives that Dr. Hyde establishes for the students in the class? What religions are covered? How does the subject matter in this course relate to the overarching themes in Looking for Alaska?

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