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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 of Chapter 36?

2. What happens when Travis gets into the car after leaving the arcade in Chapter 25?

3. Where do Cate and Travis follow Travis's father to in Chapter 28?

4. Why is Travis glad when Cate leaves in Chapter 36?

5. What items from the movie theater does Travis lament he no longer has?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is significant about the change in the narrative tense in the Epilogue?

2. What is Travis doing in the beginning of Chapter 35? Who is he with?

3. What is revealed in the phone conversation with Travis in the beginning of Chapter 33?

4. What advice does Lawrence Ramsey offer to Travis in Chapter 29?

5. What actions does Travis take in unraveling the mysetery of his father in Chapter 27?

6. How does Travis describe his family's Christmas celebration in Chapter 27?

7. What does the conflict between Travis and Turner signify in the narrative?

8. What does Travis learn from his father regarding his parents' divorce in Chapter 27?

9. What is the memory that Travis relates in Chapter 26?

10. What transformation does Travis undergo in Chapter 35?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Travis's experiences during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays in the novel. With whom does Travis spend the holidays? How does he feel about these characters? How does he feel about the experiences he has during the holidays?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Describe and discuss the plot structure of Noggin. Where in the narrative are the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and denouement? How does the structure of the narrative relate to other novels you've read?

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