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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 or who encourages Greg to leave the bathroom on the plane?

2. After the plane takes off, what does the couple do who are sitting in the same row as Greg is?

3. Who does Greg have to sit between on the plane?

4. When Greg and his family get to the gate, how long is the flight delayed?

5. At the beginning of the book, what does Greg say turns their holidays upside down?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does it mean that the resort the Heffleys go to is all-inclusive?

2. What does Greg like about the family's room at the resort?

3. How do the Heffley's get to the gate?

4. Why do Greg and his father start to walk from the parking lot to the terminal at the airport?

5. What does Greg do with a toy that the baby's mother gives the child and why?

6. What problems does Greg have with passengers in front of and behind him on the flight?

7. What does Greg get to eat on the plane, and why does he not get anything else?

8. What lesson does Greg's dad want him to learn and what lesson does Greg learn from an altercation with a pickup truck driver?

9. What are the first two activities that Greg participates in at the resort?

10. What happens when Greg tries to watch a movie on the airplane?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Greg makes a comment that his family never has a good time together. How would you describe the family’s relationship? What experiences do they share at the resort? How do those shared experiences seem to affect their relationship?

Essay Topic 2

Greg and his father do not spend a lot of time doing things together. How would you describe the relationship that Greg and his father have? How do the different ways that each one approaches problems and situations affect their relationship?

Essay Topic 3

Manny does things with no worries about consequences or danger. Greg is always cautious. What do the different ways that the two of them approach life seem to reveal about the value of caution and the disadvantages of being overly cautious? Which approach does the author seem to recommend?

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