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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator starts Chapter 157 with a discourse on what happened at school for what number of days?
(a) Ten days.
(b) Six days.
(c) Three days.
(d) One day.

2. What illustration does the narrator include in Chapter 229?
(a) A picture of the people he sees on the train.
(b) A picture of his father.
(c) A picture depicting his dream.
(d) A picture of different facial expressions.

3. According to the narrator, why is Orion called Orion?
(a) Because Orion was a hunter.
(b) Because Orion was named by Earl Orion.
(c) Because scientist thought Orion would make a nice name.
(d) Because the scientist that discovered it named it after his dog Orion.

4. What grade does the narrator get on each section of his A-level exams?
(a) C.
(b) B.
(c) D.
(d) A.

5. Who told the narrator to write descriptions?
(a) Siobhan.
(b) Father.
(c) Mrs. Alexander.
(d) Mother.

6. What does the narrator say he can see between the roof of the shed and the big plant that hangs over the fence from the house next door?
(a) A shooting star.
(b) A constellation.
(c) The planet Venus.
(d) The moon.

7. What does the narrator conclude about time at the end of Chapter 193?
(a) Time is a mystery and not a thing.
(b) Time changes a person's outlook on life.
(c) Time can be summarized in a timetable.
(d) Time does not standstill for any man.

8. What does the narrator do when his father tries to make up with him in Chapter 167?
(a) Cries and covers his head with a pillow.
(b) Hits his father.
(c) Runs out of the room.
(d) Screams and pushes his father off the bed.

9. Who helps the narrator find the subway tunnel that he will take in London?
(a) A stranger heading towards the subway tunnel.
(b) A train conductor.
(c) The lady at an information booth.
(d) A police officer.

10. Why does the narrator decide he cannot live with Siobhan?
(a) Because she is not an actually friend.
(b) Because she would get in trouble with the school.
(c) Because she will tell Father that he is living with her.
(d) Because she lives to close to Father.

11. What are adverts?
(a) Mathematical equations.
(b) Pictures or television programs to make you buy things.
(c) A poem that has a serious message.
(d) Animals that live in Malaysia.

12. What does the narrator do when a man urges him to hurry up in the train station?
(a) He hits the man.
(b) He yells at the man.
(c) He runs from the man.
(d) He barks at the man.

13. How many illustrations are in Chapter 181?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

14. What does the narrator say will happen when humans evolve into another animal?
(a) The new animal will free the captured animals.
(b) The new animal will put humans being into a zoo.
(c) The new animal will kill human beings.
(d) The new animal will be dumber than human beings.

15. When did the narrator make timetables?
(a) When he played with his trains.
(b) When he studied for his A-level math exam.
(c) When he was charting the number of red cars he saw on his way to school.
(d) When he was looking for the dog's killer.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 229, what happens in the narrator's dream?

2. According to the narrator, if everyone in the world was tossing coins, eventually how many heads in a row would someone get?

3. Who supervises the narrator while he takes his A-level exams?

4. What does the narrator use Chapter 163 to do?

5. Why does the narrator say people believe in God?

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