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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 Chapter 17's title?

2. What is the title of Chapter 16?

3. What does Travis do when he learns that the urn contains his ashes in Chapter 5?

4. Where do Travis and Hatton go in Chapter 16?

5. Why do Travis and his parents wait before leaving the movie theater in Chapter 13?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Travis discuss with Dr. Saranson in Chapter 10?

2. What happens when Travis and Hatton arrive at the karaoke bar in Chapter 17?

3. How does the title of the book come into play in Chapter 7? Who uses this name?

4. How does Travis describe the differences of his new body in Chapter 3?

5. What is the symbolic or metaphorical significance of Travis's experience at the movie theater in Chapter 13?

6. Whom does Travis go to see in Chapter 11? What do they discuss?

7. How is Travis's encounter with Cate described in Chapter 21?

8. How is Travis's trip to the movie theater described in Chapter 13?

9. What memory does Travis have in flashback in Chapter 20?

10. What themes are developed in the subplot relating to Kyle's secret in the narrative?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss several examples of irony in Noggin. What are examples of verbal irony in the story? What are examples of dramatic or situational irony? What purpose does irony serve in each example?

Essay Topic 2

Who is Jeremy Pratt and what is his relationship to the protagonist? How does Travis learn about Jeremy Pratt? What does he learn about him? What does Jeremy signify to Travis?

Essay Topic 3

How is the novel's title illuminated in the narrative? When does "Noggin" appear in the text? From what character? Why do you think the author chose this title for the book?

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