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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “After,” Part 2 (pages 157-173).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Miles's French teacher at the boarding school?
(a) Dr. Hyde.
(b) Mrs. Richman.
(c) Madame O'Malley.
(d) Mrs. Forrester.

2. What is the question posed for the term paper that the students are to write for their World Religions class in “seventy-six days before”?
(a) Which religion do associate with most closely and why?
(b) What is the meaning of life?
(c) What is the most important question human beings must answer?
(d) Compare and contrast Islam, Buddhism, and Christianity.

3. What French verb meaning "to believe" does Miles's French teacher conjugate in “eighty-four days before”?
(a) A croire.
(b) Amore.
(c) Ribet.
(d) Scribet.

4. How far away from campus was Alaska when she died?
(a) 6 miles away.
(b) 30 miles away.
(c) 2 miles away.
(d) 20 miles away.

5. What poet does Chip describe in his rap in “one hundred ten days before” as being unafraid of "slant rhyme"?
(a) William Shakespeare.
(b) Percy Shelley.
(c) Lord Byron.
(d) Emily Dickinson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What character created by Arthur Miller does Chip rap about in “one hundred ten days before”?

2. What kind of video do Miles and Alaska find and watch in “forty-nine days before”?

3. Who is the dead American President that Kevin names for Miles to say his last words, in “one hundred nine days before”?

4. What is Alaska's last name in the novel?

5. Who does Chip theorize called Alaska on the night she died in "nine days after"?

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