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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 does John ask to do before the test in Chapter 5?

2. In Chapter 4, why does Spider say that John has to give him his glove?

3. In Chapter 1, what recommendation does Dr. Cranium have after examining John?

4. What color hair does Susan Buttercup have?

5. When John buys candy who does he share it with in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Miss Plimsole do when she walks into John's classroom in Chapter 5?

2. What does John find when he opens the box of chocolate he buys from the candy store in Chapter 2?

3. What does the store look like that John finds when he is walking and finds a coin?

4. In Chapter 4, what does John discover when he is thinking?

5. At the end of Chapter 1, what does Mr. Midas tell John about eating?

6. What does John ask to do before a test in Chapter 5, and why does it take him so long to return to class?

7. What is John's one fault in Chapter 1?

8. What does Mrs. Midas offer to do if John eats a good lunch at school in Chapter 3?

9. In Chapter 4, what happens to Susan's silver dollar, and how does she feel about what happens?

10. Who is John's doctor in Chapter 1, and what does he look like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 8, John’s teacher gives vocabulary words that seem to be related to John’s situation. What vocabulary words does John’s teacher give the students? What lessons do the words suggest that John should be learning and why?

Essay Topic 3

What is revealed about John and the type of person that he is at the beginning of the novel?

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