Paper Towns Part 3 Review

What is Part 3 of Paper Towns organized into?

• chapters

• states

• hours

• parts

What do you believe was the intention of the author in structuring the section about the road trip hour by hour?

• Green wants to make his writing clear and easy for the reader to follow.

• Green grows increasingly specific to plant several moments of foreshadowing in the road trip section.

• Green organizes his entire novel in this way to give his writing the feeling of a documentary-style.

• Green wants the reader to feel the slow tension building as Quentin and his friends get closer and closer to finding Margo.

What was Ben's role for the road trip?

• provisioner

• researcher/calculator

• the need to use the restroom and ask the group to stop

• driver

What was Quentin's role for the road trip?

• provisioner

• researcher/calculator

• asking the group to stop to use the restroom

• driver

On page 244, why mainly do Quentin, Ben, Radar, and Lacey each take on a certain role for the trip?

• Everyone in the car has a particular specialty so it makes sense to divide the labor according to ability.

• This decision is instigated by Lacey, who wants to be the “provisioner” so that she can make sure they have tasty and healthy food to eat.

• The friends in the car think of themselves as a team, and just like any other team, each person has a particular role to help win the game of finding Margo.

• Because there is very little time for the group of friends to reach Agloe before Margo leaves, they divide the roles so that they can be as efficient as possible.

True or False: Quentin and his friends find Margo in New York City

• True

• False

The setting of Agloe can best be described as

• charming

• frigthening

• welcoming

• desolate

Quentin and his friends’ decision to skip graduation and go on a 19-hour road trip instead to find Margo mainly represents which of the following themes in the novel?

• Social rituals and milestones are generally meaningless and vapid.

• Rebellion against one’s parents is one of the crucial steps in the shift from childhood into adulthood.

• It is more important to pursue one’s personal goals than to conform to society’s expectations.

• Real education does not occur in school; it occurs in the adventures we go on as unique individuals.

On page 281, when Quentin and his friends discover Margo, how can we infer that she feels?

• thrilled that her friends have cared enough to follow her clues

• disoriented because Margo no longer remembers Quentin and his friends

• unsettled because Margo hadn’t meant for anybody to find her

• relieved because she had grown quite lonely over the past several weeks

On page 293, what does Margo mean when she says that people love the idea of a “paper girl” and that she cultivated that image?

• Margo means that she simply did whatever anybody told her to do without question.

• Margo means that she constructed her identity to be the person that everybody liked and who fit everyone’s expectations instead of trying to be herself.

• Margo means that everyone in the neighborhood where they lived in Orlando wanted Margo to be the same as all of the other cookie cutter people around them and so she gave in.

• Margo uses this as slang for behaving in a way that made her be accepted by the popular crowd.