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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
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)
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