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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. For how many days has it been ceaselessly raining in the beginning of “seventy-six days before”?

2. What nickname does Chip give to Miles when they meet?

3. Where does Miles Halter's family live?

4. Near what city is the boarding school located that Miles arrives at in “one hundred twenty-eight days before”?

5. Miles describes his dorm room at the boarding school as reminding him more of what than the dorm room of his fantasies?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Miles compare himself physically to Chip in "one hundred twenty-eight days before"? Where does Chip take Miles after they meet?

2. Whose dorm room do Alaska and Miles break into in "fifty-one days before"? Why?

3. What kinds of quotations does Miles memorize regularly in the novel? Why is this significant to the story?

4. How has the weather changed in "eighty-four days before"? How has this affected Miles's relationships?

5. What friend of Chip's does Miles meet in the cafeteria in "one hundred twenty-seven days before"? What does this character discuss with Chip?

6. What is the significance of the World Religions class and instructor that Miles meets in "one hundred twenty-six days before"?

7. What verdict does the Jury reach in "ninety-eight days before"? What punishments are assigned?

8. What does Alaska come to inform Miles in his dorm room in "eighty-nine days before"?

9. What does Miles realize about his previous encounter with the Jury in "sixty-seven days before"?

10. How does Miles describe the system of criminal justice at Culver Creek Preparatory School in "ninety-eight days before"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the character of Miles Halter as the protagonist and narrator of Looking for Alaska. What can you discern about Miles’s character based on his use of language? How does Miles describe his own appearance? What kind of relationships does Miles have with his parents? How would you describe Miles’s outlook on life? How does Miles evolve throughout the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze the narrative point of view from which the story of Looking for Alaska is related. Why do you think the author chooses to tell the story from a first-person narrative point of view? What are the benefits of this narrative style? What are the limitations? How do you think the story would differ if it were related from a different narrative perspective?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the setting of the novel and author John Green’s source material that he drew from in establishing this setting. Where in Alabama is the Culver Creek Preparatory School located? What clues in the text indicate the time period in which the story takes place? What are the social, cultural, and economic factors within the setting of Birmingham?

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