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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. Who does Max run into on the front lawn of the hospital?

2. What does Max compare Gwen to on Christmas Eve?

3. What does Gram ask Max if he has when they are talking about Kevin's trips to the doctor, after Max tells her that they are a team?

4. Where does Mrs. Donelli wait for Max to go before asking him questions that she would no longer ask him in class?

5. What smell does Max first recognize when he enters "the other place" with his father?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Max do, on the hospital lawn, given that he is not able to go in and visit Kevin?

2. What does Max's father do to ensure that Max does not escape from the abandoned basement?

3. How is Kevin dressed for the Christmas Eve dinner at Max's house?

4. Why does Loretta come to the abandoned basement to rescue Max?

5. What happens to force Max to believe that "spooky stuff" happens on all Friday the Thirteenths?

6. How does Mr. Meehan explain Max's inability to do well in school?

7. What does Max's father claim is a "crime against humanity"?

8. Why does Max's father believe that Grim and Gram thought he was not good enough for their daughter?

9. How does Kevin define remembering?

10. Why does Kevin think that his tracheotomy is cool?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What character from the book do you identify with the most? Name the character and list the characteristics that you believe align with the type of person that you are.

Essay Topic 2

Family comes to mean more to Max by the end of the book given all that he has been through. Discuss what Max comes to learn about the importance of family. In what ways does Max find out family is important? What did Max think about family before the book ended? What events changed Max's mind about the importance of family?

Essay Topic 3

Max learns from those around him continuously throughout the book. Choose three of the subordinate characters and discuss what you believe Max learned from them. Why was this lesson important?

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