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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 long are flights from San Francisco to Belgrade, Serbia?

2. How much money did Excel steal from a teacher's wallet in Chapter 20?

3. What month was it in Chapter 24?

4. In Chapter 28, what does Sab say that the temperature was when she left Hello City?

5. How much money does Excel give Z to go home to Serbia in Chapter 31?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Maxima and Excel meet Jerry at the San Francisco International Airport?

2. Where did Sab go and why when she was gone overnight in Chapter 24?

3. In Chapter 32, what happens to Gunter one night?

4. In Chapter 16, how did Excel and Sab celebrate Thanksgiving?

5. Why does Gunter refuse to pay Excel in Chapter 17, and how does Excel protest?

6. What does Sab tell Excel about her pregnancy in Chapter 28, and why did she not call him?

7. In Chapter 28, how long is Sab staying in Colma?

8. In Chapter 18 what does Excel send Sab?

9. Why did Excel have to leave Hello City in Chapter 26?

10. What story does Excel tell Maxima about needing money in Chapter 18?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Flashbacks are a literary device used to provide information about events that took place before the story began. How does the author use flashbacks in the novel? How does the author’s choice to use flashback affect the plot?

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

Hello City keeps a captive owl. In what ways are Excel and the Oracle both captives? How are they both in cages? Do they ever achieve freedom?

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