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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 kind of ice cream does Michael have that night?

2. What does Ostin say is disturbing about the fifty-nine births recorded at Passadena General Hospital.

3. What are Ostin and Michael watching when Mrs. Vey says it's time to go pick up Taylor?

4. What does Mrs. Vey plan to have for dinner the Friday night of the game?

5. Why does MIchael call the pizza place he likes "Pizza Max?"

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Michael say happened at the only other party he'd been invited to since he had moved to Idaho?

2. Why does Michael feel a little guilty about going out to a ball game and a party on Friday night? What is his mom's response?

3. How does the game end and what does Taylor late confess about her role in it?

4. How does Mrs. Vey discover that Ostin knows about Michael's electric power?

5. What does Ostin say he discovered when he went looking into the birth records for the period covering Taylor and Michael's births?

6. Where does Ostin go that afternoon after class, and why does he go there?

7. Describe the scene between Michael and his mother the evening after Michael shocks Mitchell, Wade, and Jack.

8. Describe the scene in which Taylor is caught passing notes in science class.

9. What happens when Corky and Michael go outside the house for a wrestling match? What does Michael say afterward?

10. What are Michael's thoughts about Taylor Ridley? Why doesn't he share that information with his best friend, Ostin?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the most important setting in the book? Why? Compare Cell 25 as a setting to any other setting in the book.

Essay Topic 2

Who is Ostin Liss? What is Ostin's biggest strength? How does he use that to help Michael? What is Ostin's biggest weakness? In what ways is Ostin a typical teen? In what ways is he not a typical teen?

Essay Topic 3

Who are Jack, Mitchell, and Wade? How do the three interact with Michael and Ostin? What is their action that prompts the friendship between Taylor and Michael? How do the relationships between Michael, Wade, and Jack change over the course of the story? Why do they change?

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