Ten Miles One Way, Chapter 8, part 2

The Miles One Way, Chapter 8, part 2

by Joan Crist

Multiple Choice

The mythical creature that Nest sees as a metaphor for her mental illness:

• Pegasus

• Kraken

• Cyclops

• Chimaera

Multiple Select

What has just happened in the story? Two answers:

• Nest nearly got hit by a car.

• Q stopped walking with her and went home.

• Nest felt overcome by a mental breakdown.

• Nest and Q rescued a starving stray dog.

Multiple Choice

The Italics mean that who is talking in the story?

• Nest

• Q

Multiple Choice

Which of the following does Q NOT feel toward Nest now?

• Calm

• Worried

• Sad.

• Afraid.

Multiple Choice

After coming back from her mental breakdown to ordinary consciousness, Nest worries that...

• ...she has hurt something or someone during her breakdown.

• ...she has been hurt by someone else.

• ...the dog will die.

Multiple Choice

Q now gives us a foreshadowing of the future by suggesting that Nest's breakdowns could happen while she is...

• driving

• sleeping

• taking a test in school

• visiting with him

Multiple Choice

What is a theme that could come from this part of the story?

• Loving a person means accepting the dark side of his or her personality.

• Don't be friends with people who have negative personalities.

Multiple Choice

Nest compared her father's mental breakdowns to this mythical creature, called the...

• Gorgon

• Minotaur

• Centaur

• Siren

Multiple Choice

Just as Nest's mother had to help her father through breakdowns, so Nest worries that _____ will have to help her and eventually lose her.

• Q

• her father

• her teachers

• strangers

Multiple Choice

The mood of the story is shifting...

• from dark and sad to more hopeful.

• from humorous to more serious.

Multiple Choice

Dave Kunst walked...

• sort of around the world

• from Belgrade to Kamchatka

• across Minnesota

• over six continents

Multiple Choice

How many mules did Dave go through on his world-wide walk?

• 1

• 2

• 3

Multiple Choice

If Dave Kunst is like Nest because of walking so much, then which character is like Q because of coming to help and falling in love?

• The brother John

• The brother Pete

• Jenni

• the third mule

Multiple Choice

Now Nest is keeping her mind busy with...

• mental math.

• trendy shoes

• messages from friends

Multiple Choice

Nest figures out that a million steps is about 600 miles, and she knows that this is about the distance from Tel Aviv, Israel to...

• Paris, France

• Boston, Massachusetts

• Seoul, South Korea

• Baghdad, Iraq

Multiple Choice

Nest reflects on her stories by daydreaming about...

• walking a long distance as an avatar in Skyrim.

• vacationing in Cancun.

• walking to South America herself.

• getting a Labrador dog as a pet.