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

2. When there is a tornado the last week of school, what building gets hit by lightning?

3. What is the name of Simon's science teacher?

4. Where did Simon always stay when he would visit his grandmother at her old farmhouse?

5. What was the name of the elementary school Simon attended?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Mister Missing Body Semple related to other people in Grin And Bear It?

2. Why is Simon alone at church in Chapter 20?

3. In Chapter 21, what is going on at Agate's when Simon and Kevin bicycle to the farm?

4. Who figures out how to make the microwave run while it is open, and how do they make it run when it is open?

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

6. Why does Saint Barbara's catch on fire even though they have a lightning rod?

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

8. What is Run Across America?

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

10. How does Doc Matapang make a halo halo for Simon?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Conflicts between characters are often caused by a problem. What are some conflicts that occur in the novel? Are the conflicts in the book mostly man vs. man, man vs. nature, or man vs. self? Are they internal or external conflicts?

Essay Topic 2

Bow reveals Simon and Kevin’s lives during a pivotal time. How do the events in Simon Sort of Says help Simon and Kevin mature and grow in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

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

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