Chapters 1-3

Reading Check

1. A mother-daughter fashion show (Chapter 1)

2. The guilt (Chapter 3)

Short Answer

1. No matter who A inhabits, mornings involve dressing, hurrying through breakfast, and getting out the door. (Chapter 2)

Chapters 4-6

Reading Check

1. Drug addiction (Chapter 5)

2. Midnight (Chapter 6)

Short Answer

1. A decides to hijack Amy Tran’s life for his own purposes. He does not follow the normal routine Amy would follow; instead, A acts on his own desire, to find Rhiannon at her school, an hour away. (Chapter 4)

Chapters 7-9

Reading Check

1. Demonic possession (Chapter 8)

2. A bookstore (Chapter 9)

Short Answer

1. They think religions have much more in common than many people expect. The beliefs of all the different religions are essentially the same. (Chapter 7)

Chapters 10-12

Reading Check

1. Paul and Tom (Chapter 10)

2. Mental illness, specifically depression (Chapter 12)

Short Answer

1. Because people either see him in black-and-white terms, as either a freak or an oracle. In telling his story, the people around him have stopped treating him like a normal sixteen-year-old boy. (Chapter 11)