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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 was a lecture series based on?

2. How many children did Randy have?

3. How long did Randy have to live when the tumors were found?

4. What time did Randy begin his lecture?

5. What did Randy say were deceiving at the beginning of the book?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Randy do to show his nephew he didn't have to be worried about his car?

2. Why didn't Randy's wife want him to give the lecture?

3. What did Randy give away at his lecture? Why?

4. What did Jai do to Randy's car one day, and how did he respond?

5. How did Jai make her last New Year's with Randy a more positive affair?

6. What advice did Randy get when Jai rejected him?

7. What did Randy's parents buy every year? What did this cause Randy to desire?

8. How did Randy achieve his dream of being in zero gravity?

9. Why did Randy move his family before he died?

10. How did Randy rate the coolness of people at a carnival?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is this book different from a traditional narrative? Do you like these differences? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

What did Randy learn from his time on a sports team, and how was his life changed by those lessons?

Essay Topic 3

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears, and how do the people touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

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