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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 color poster board is the Goodbunnies chart on?

2. Where did Grams do her military service?

3. Who is Aldo's reading partner in Chapter 21?

4. In Chapter 13, how long has it been since Mr. Kermit ran?

5. In Chapter 15, what does Parker deliver to the truck stop?

Short Essay Questions

1. What announcement comes over the PA while Mr. Kermit is wondering why all of his students are missing in Chapter 13?

2. Why is Dr. Thaddeus worried about Mr. Kermit taking early retirement, and what does he intend to do about it?

3. At the beginning of Chapter 19, how does Grams tell Parker that she won his grandfather when another girl wanted him?

4. Why does Jake Terranova come to Mr. Kermit's classroom in Chapter 16?

5. Why does Kiana think that her half-brother Chauncey and Vladimir the gecko are alike?

6. Why is it Barnstorm's teachers' fault that he is in SCS-8?

7. What do the students of SCS-8 see when they return to their classroom after Spirit Week?

8. Why does Mr. Kermit start getting anagram books for Parker?

9. What happens to Elaine during the field trip to Terranova Motors?

10. Who works with Parker on anagrams, and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Idioms are words that have a figurative, rather than a literal meaning. How does the author use idioms in the book? Why are the idioms sometimes difficult to understand? Why do the idioms often require research to understand their meaning?

Essay Topic 2

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in the book? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and people?

Essay Topic 3

Metaphors and similes are figures of speech that are used to make comparisons between things. Metaphors seem to imply an equal comparison, while similes seem to imply a similarity between two things. Does the author use more metaphors or similes in the novel? How does the use of metaphors or similes help readers comprehend concepts? How does the use of metaphors or similes help readers make the writing more interesting?

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