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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 is the basement of the funeral home painted?

2. How loes it take Simon to build a platform in the treehouse for the microwave to sit on?

3. How tall are the animals that overrun the Van der Zwaan farm in Chapter 15?

4. What time does Simon wake and not get back to sleep in Chapter 15?

5. How many Sundays after Easter is the Solemnity of the Ascension?

Short Essay Questions

1. After the school shooting, how did Isobel get a reporter named Kathy Catchpole to stop writing about the shooting?

2. How does Kevin learn that Simon is a survivor of a school shooting?

3. How have the students in Simon's class been keeping busy during the last two weeks of school?

4. Why does Simon not go to school on the last day of the year?

5. Why is it easy to steal Kevin's microwave?

6. How does Simon describe the school shooting?

7. What is the basement like at the funeral home?

8. What is it like at the Van der Zwaan farm when Isobel and Simon come to help with the emus?

9. What do Simon and Kevin talk about after church in Chapter 20?

10. Why does Simon think they run into a space alien when he and Kevin take the microwave to Agate's treehouse?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Novels can be structured and divided in different ways. How does the structure of a novel provide clarity and flow to a story? What are chapter titles? What are some purposes of chapter titles? How does Bow use chapter titles in Simon Sort of Says?

Essay Topic 2

Simon suffers from PTSD. Why does Simon suffer from PTSD? How do his symptoms display themselves? What coping strategies does he use and/or develop throughout the novel?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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