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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is in the Smarties box?
(a) A marker.
(b) A pencil.
(c) Smarties.
(d) Stickers.

2. What is not one of the things that the narrator says he can stay home and do if he doesn't want to go anywhere?
(a) Sit in the corner of a room and rub a 1 pound coin over the radiator.
(b) Play video games for a whole week.
(c) Take a bath and finish writing his book.
(d) Eat broccoli, oranges, and licorice laces.

3. In the fourth letter, what medical procedure does mother say she had done?
(a) Root canal.
(b) Foot operation.
(c) Mouth wired shut.
(d) Teeth pulled.

4. What does the narrator do when his father tries to make up with him in Chapter 167?
(a) Runs out of the room.
(b) Cries and covers his head with a pillow.
(c) Screams and pushes his father off the bed.
(d) Hits his father.

5. What were the two orangutans doing in the photograph in Chapter 223?
(a) Drinking milk.
(b) Grooming each other.
(c) Playing on a mountain.
(d) Swinging on branches.

6. How old was the narrator when Siobhan started working at the school?
(a) 10 years old.
(b) 7 years old.
(c) 12 years old.
(d) 5 years old.

7. What is the setting of Chapter 197?
(a) His mother's house.
(b) The police station.
(c) A train car.
(d) The train station.

8. Why does Mother lose her job?
(a) Her job found out about her son.
(b) She was not completing her assignments on time.
(c) She is taking too much time off of work.
(d) She quit.

9. What does the narrator do when he shuts his mind down?
(a) Occupies himself with mathematical equations, puzzles, or games.
(b) Eats a lot of food.
(c) Closes his eyes and meditates.
(d) Sleeps for long periods.

10. How does the narrator decide to travel to his mother's house?
(a) By bus.
(b) By train.
(c) By cab.
(d) By foot.

11. What nickname do the three young men on the train give to the narrator?
(a) Silly boy.
(b) Train elf.
(c) Train rider boy.
(d) Young elf.

12. How does the narrator close out Chapter 167?
(a) He wakes his father up to talk about the dog's death.
(b) He tells Mrs. Shears about the dog's death.
(c) He wonders what he is going to do next.
(d) He falls asleep.

13. The narrator starts Chapter 157 with a discourse on what happened at school for what number of days?
(a) Three days.
(b) Ten days.
(c) One day.
(d) Six days.

14. According to the narrator, if everyone in the world was tossing coins, eventually how many heads in a row would someone get?
(a) 4,389.
(b) 3,299.
(c) 5,698.
(d) 2,088.

15. What term does the narrator give to the phenomenon in which eyes move from point to point without really seeing what is in between the two points?
(a) Visual Illuminations.
(b) Visual Escapes.
(c) Visual Memorization.
(d) Visual Saccades.

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately, how long does the narrator spend on the bench at the subway station in Chapter 227?

2. What makes the narrator's dream in Chapter 229 special?

3. Why does the narrator say that half an eye is very useful?

4. What does mother try to explain in the second letter the narrator reads?

5. Who supervises the narrator while he takes his A-level exams?

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