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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 color robes does Kevin wear when he serves as alar boy?
2. In Chapter 16, by what time are Mr. Bagshott's animals captured, the goats released, and the ducks calmed down?
3. What movie does Simon in Chapter 16, remember that his English class watched last week?
4. What does Martin make for dinner in Chapter 14?
5. Where did Simon and his classmates hide during the shooting at his school?
Short Essay Questions
1. What has Agate borrowed from Jade for the message project, and why?
2. How have the students in Simon's class been keeping busy during the last two weeks of school?
3. Why does Simon think they run into a space alien when he and Kevin take the microwave to Agate's treehouse?
4. How do Agate and Simon lure the emus back to Mr. Bashott's farm?
5. In Chapter 21, what is going on at Agate's when Simon and Kevin bicycle to the farm?
6. After the school shooting, how did Isobel get a reporter named Kathy Catchpole to stop writing about the shooting?
7. How is Mister Missing Body Semple related to other people in Grin And Bear It?
8. What do Simon and Kevin talk about after church in Chapter 20?
9. What is it like at the Van der Zwaan farm when Isobel and Simon come to help with the emus?
10. What is Run Across America?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In the novel, Grin And Bear It is set in a National Quiet Zone. What is the National Quiet Zone, and how does it affect life in Grin And Bear It?
Essay Topic 2
Agate gives Simon Hercules so he can train and socialize the puppy. How do Simon and Hercules help one another and how is their relationship mutually beneficial?
Essay Topic 3
Simon does not think he is the brains when he works with Agate and Kevin on the message project. Why does Simon think he is not as smart as Agate and Kevin? What ideas and suggestions does he make? What does he think of that Agate and Kevin do not? Is Simon smart?
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