View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Aaron use to describe Me-Crazy?

2. To which of the following does Aaron compare Slattery?

3. Near which of the following train stations does Kyle live after his Leteo procedure?

4. Which of the following games is suggested at Thomas’s birthday party?

5. Which of the following beers does Thomas drink with Aaron?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Aaron describe the experience of waking after having been assaulted by Me-Crazy?

2. How is Skelzies played?

3. What explanation does Collin give for his romantic interest in a 16-year-old Aaron?

4. What failures as a parent does Elsie identify in herself?

5. At the flea market, what does Aaron note *needing* rather than *wanting*?

6. What happens when Aaron first returns home after his assault by Me-Crazy?

7. What reasons does Thomas give for leaving off the idea of becoming a director?

8. What does Thomas report doing while Aaron was recovering from his assault?

9. How does Aaron explain having been nice to Collin while visiting Comic Book Asylum with Thomas?

10. What reasons are cited for Thomas thinking Genevieve a witch?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Aaron comments through much of the text on the lack of money in his household. At the same time, the family is supplied with gaming systems and other luxuries. How, therefore, does the novel define poverty? What in the text supports the definition? How does the text support that definition?

Essay Topic 2

To what extent is the milieu of More Happy than Not dystopian? What in the novel and in experience bears out that assertion? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Sibling relationships in the novel are presented with some tension. What effect does that tension have in the novel, and how does that effect present itself?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 619 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample