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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. To whom of the following does Aaron compare Eric?

2. Which of the following dedicatory statements is in the front matter?

3. Whom of the following hides under cars in games of manhunt?

4. Which of the following toys does Thomas note thinking his father was getting for him?

5. At which of the following parks does Genevieve ask Aaron out?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reasons does Aaron give for wanting to avoid shooting fireworks from roofs?

2. What reasons does Aaron give for liking summer in his neighborhood?

3. For what reasons does Me-Crazy have the sobriquet?

4. How does Aaron regard Thomas’s progress through career ideas?

5. Why does Aaron posit Leteo attracts as much resistance as it does?

6. What reasons does Thomas give for disappointment in his former theater job?

7. Why does Thomas note his high school track field is a place of importance for him?

8. What reasons does Aaron give for calling Brendan his “sort of best friend” (5)?

9. What fate does Aaron note awaits the community center shirts he and his friends receive at Family Day?

10. What hopes for the reader does Thomas express in her introduction to the novel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sources attest to the presence of More Happy than Not on the New York Times and other best-seller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the novel? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

What function does the front matter serve for the novel? How do you know?

Essay Topic 3

Overall, what is the novel’s attitude toward memory? What in the novel indicates as much? How does it do so?

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