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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. How does Chase describe the woman sitting by his hospital bed when he regains consciousness?

2. Where does Shoshanna remember that her dad always took Joel and her before the first day of school?

3. Who traps Brendan under a chair in Chapter 4?

4. Where does Chase especially feel pain after falling off the roof?

5. What did somebody put in Joel's locker when he was being bullied?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ms. DeLeo wants the members of the video club to work on in Chapter 7?

2. Why does Chase return to the assisted living place instead of eating pizza with Aaron and Bear in Chapter 9?

3. Where is Joel Weber going to school and why?

4. What does Chase see and hear when he wakes in Chapter 1?

5. What thoughts does Chase have about the Hiawassee Hurricanes in Chapter 5?

6. What conversation do Chase and his mother have before she drops him off on his first day of school?

7. In Chapter 8, what memory comes back to Chase?

8. What does Dr. Fitzwallace tell Chase when he talks to him before school begins?

9. When does Chase meet his dad and his dad's family for the first time since the fall, and what does he think when they meet?

10. Where does Chase go to school, and why does it look familiar?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Some characters in the story are stereotypes. Who are some characters in the novel who are stereotypes? How do they advance the narrative? How do these characters advance the plot?

Essay Topic 2

An allusion is a figure of speech that does not directly refer to a person, place, or thing. What are some allusions in the novel? Why might it be difficult to decipher an allusion just by the context of a passage in a book? Why might research be required to understand allusions?

Essay Topic 3

The climax in a novel is the highest point of tension and a turning point. What is the climax of the novel and why is that incident the climax?

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