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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. How many Gladers in all survive the endeavor of getting through the Griever Hole in Chapter Fifty-Eight?

2. How many chairs of the Keepers are empty at the Gathering in Chapter Forty-Nine?

3. Who gives the most effective pep talk to the Gladers as they enter the Maze in Chapter Fifty-Four?

4. What has been burned in Chapter Forty?

5. Which of the Keepers does Chuck say was taken by the Grievers when Thomas awakens in Chapter Forty-Eight?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Alby confess to in Chapter Fifty-One? Why does Alby say he committed this action?

2. How does Thomas go about testing and proving his theory in Chapter Forty-Two?

3. How does Thomas go about enacting his plan to be stung by a Griever in Chapter Forty-Six?

4. What decision does Newt say the Keepers have reached in Chapter Fifty-Three? What preparations are made?

5. What do Thomas and the other Gladers encounter when they exit the Maze in Chapter Fifty-Nine? Who greets them?

6. Who greets Thomas when he awakens in Chapter Forty-Eight? How long has Thomas slept?

7. Why is Thomas conflicted about going into the Maze in Chapter Forty-Three?

8. How is Thomas's first journey into the Maze as a Runner described in Chapter Thirty-Three?

9. Why does Thomas leave the Gathering in Chapter Fifty-Two? Where does he go, and why?

10. What does Thomas insist on doing immediately in Chapter Forty-Eight? Why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and discuss the character of Thomas in the novel. Approximately how old is Thomas? What indications in the text allude to his approximate age? What characteristics does Thomas display in the first chapters of the novel? Is Thomas a likable character? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze the narrative style of the novel. Is the story related from a first, second, or third person narrator? Is the narrator involved in the action of the story? Is the story told from a present or past tense? Why do you think the author made these choices? How would the story differ if the narrative style were changed?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Thomas’s discoveries in the falling action and denouement of the narrative. What does Thomas discover about “the Flare” and the history of the world. Why were the Gladers taken and placed in the Glade? What indications of foreshadowing in the novel’s ending suggest further novels to come?

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