Prologue-Chapter 1.5

Reading Check

1. An apology (Chapter 1.5)

2. Multiple answers are acceptable: your [the reader’s] hometown, your school, your street (Chapter 1.5)

Short Answer

1. The narrator states that this story is dangerous because it contains a secret. (Prologue)

2. The narrator ultimately decides to continue the story because he can’t keep a secret. (Chapter 1.5)

Chapters 2-7

Reading Check

1. The Symphony of Smells (Chapter 2)

2. The magician’s notebook (Chapter 7)

Short Answer

1. Max-Ernest’s “condition” is that he seems to never stop talking. (Chapter 3)

2. Cass and Max-Ernest match the instruments to their smell in the Symphony of Smells to reveal that the magician’s coded message is “HELP.” (Chapter 4)

Chapters 8-14

Reading Check

1. Anagrams (Chapter 8)

2. A crescent-shaped birth mark (Chapter 12)

3. Synesthesia (Chapter 14)

4. Ms. Mauvais (Chapter 14)

Short Answer

1. Cass realizes that the clue “UNDERNEATH” refers to the fact that Pietro double-folded all the pages in his notebook; his writings are “underneath” the seemingly blank pages. (Chapter 11)

2.