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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 is the title Earl wants to give the second movie he and Greg make?
2. Why has Greg retired from filmmaking?
3. Over what do Earl and Greg bond?
4. Why does Rachel beg Greg to stop talking?
5. Does the fictitious author say that he learned anything from Rachel, the girl with leukemia?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the purpose of Chapter 16?
2. What are the problems that Greg lists regarding Earl’s home?
3. In Chapter 9, what is Earl’s response when Greg informs him that he cannot watch the movie with him today, because he is hanging out with a girl from school?
4. What does Greg say about hot girls?
5. Who are Greg’s sisters?
6. What leads Greg to freak out in the cafeteria?
7. How does a friendship begin to form between Greg and Rachel?
8. What happens when Greg and Earl make their first film?
9. What begins the bond between Greg and Earl?
10. How does Greg’s plan to avoid forming friendships and joining a clique fail?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Rachel dies at the end of the book, and it is known all along that this will happen. Does knowing she will die make it easier to read the story and watch her die? Why or why not? What are your thoughts on how the author has Greg share with the reader that she has died? Is it what you expected? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
There are many moments of laugh-out-loud humor in this book. What is one example? What makes it so funny? How does this contrast some of the dark qualities and subject matter of this book? What does this say about the author's opinion of humor?
Essay Topic 3
Rachel's mother is concerned that she raised a sweet girl but not a tough one. Would you agree with her? Why or why not? Do you see Rachel's choice to give into cancer cowardly or brave? Why?
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