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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. In Chapter 1, how old is Excel?

2. How much money does Maxima tell Henry that she needs in the "Prologue"?

3. How tall is Excel?

4. Where did Maxima's parents drown after a typhoon?

5. In the "Prologue," what time does Maxima's alarm go off?

Short Essay Questions

1. What problems does Henry have when he talks to Maxima?

2. What does a woman give Excel on the bus?

3. What is The Pie Who Loved Me?

4. Have there been any changes in Excel's room while he has been gone, and what does he think when he sees the room?

5. How does Excel get his job back at The Pie in Chapter 5?

6. What is the Oracle in Hello City?

7. In Chapter 7, how does Excel spend his first day back at work?

8. In Chapter 14, what happens after the showing of Maxima's film at the community college?

9. How did Sab feel about her job in Chapter 13?

10. In Chapter 13, what are some jobs that Excel did in Hello City?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Excel works for a difficult man at a pizza parlor. How did Excel leave his job when he left for Hello City? How does Gunter feel when Excel asks for his job back? How does Gunter treat Excel? Is Gunter trying to get revenge?

Essay Topic 2

Maxima and Excel discuss sins when they are at a restaurant with Roxy. Why does Maxima say that the time Excel threw a spelling bee was a sin? What does Excel say are really sins? Why does the conversation become so heated? What does it reveal about things that are wrong?

Essay Topic 3

Maxima started talking to men about six months after Joker died. What does Excel think of his mother’s work? Why does he not consider it working? Does he think she is a scam artist?

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