What is in inverse proportion to one another when Christopher decides to go to London?

Fear of a new place and fear of being near his father.

How does Christopher determine whether a day would be good or bad?

The number of cars of the same colour.

How does Christopher evade the policeman who sits with him in the train?

He sits in the luggage compartment to feel safer.

What is Christopher's attitude towards Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and why?

Disdain, because Doyle believed in the supernatural.

What happened to Christopher's book manuscript after the fight with his father?

His father took it and hid it in his bedroom.

What is Christopher's favourite book?

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

How does Ed Boone explain his decision regarding Christopher's mum?

Edwas unsure how to break the truth to his son.

What joke does Christopher know and recount for the reader?

About an economist, a logician and a mathematician.

What does Mrs. Alexander tell Christopher about his mother?

That she had an affair with Roger Shears.

Why is Christopher taken to jail?

He hit a policeman who touchedhim.

Why does Christopher have to return to Swindon while staying with his mother?

He has to take his Math A-levels.

What is Christopher's living situation at the end of the novel?

He lives with his mother butoften visits his father.

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1
What is in inverse proportion to one another when Christopher decides to go to London?
Fearof trains and happiness about his mother being alive.
Proximity to his mother andproximity to his father.
Fear of a new place and fear of being near his father.
Angerat his father's lie and missing his father.
2
How does Christopher determine whether a day would be good or bad?
The number of cars of the same colour.
He gets more than three maths equations correct in a row.
The number of clouds he cancount in one minute.
He asks Siobhan what she thinks.
3
What does Ed give Christopher to try to regain his son's trust?
A puppy.
A new computer to better study for his exams.
A female rat to mate with Toby.
A new Swiss Army knife, to better protect himself.
4
What problem does Christopher use to explain why intuition cannot be trusted?
The Mathematician's Problem
The Two Orangutan Problem
The Monty Hall Problem.
The Orion Constellation Problem.
5
How does Christopher evade the policeman who sits with him in the train?
He sits in the luggage compartment to feel safer.
He gets off at the next stop.
He walks away and sits in another carriage.
He doesn't, the policeman agrees to take him to his mother.
6
What is Christopher's attitude towards Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and why?
Nothing. He didn't have an opinion.
Anger, because he didn't write enough Holmes stories.
Disdain, because Doyle believed in the supernatural.
Worship, since he created Sherlock Holmes.
7
What happened to Christopher's book manuscript after the fight with his father?
His mother saved it from the bin and returned it to him.
His father burned it, so he had to recreate it from memory.
His father gave it to Siobhan for safekeeping.
His father took it and hid it in his bedroom.
8
What is Christopher's favourite book?
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot.
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
1984 by George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
9
What advertising does Christopher encounter on his trip to London that he recounts in detail?
A record company with a dog for its mascot.
None,as all the advertisements blurred together.
A tourism ad for Malaysia.
A Nike ad telling him to"Just do it".
10
How does Ed Boone explain his decision regarding Christopher's mum?
It was his mother's idea.
Edwas unsure how to break the truth to his son.
Itwas best for him to never be in touch with his mum again.
None of the above.
11
What joke does Christopher know and recount for the reader?
About the "stupid" kids in his school.
About the astronaut who forgets something on Earth.
About the population of frogs in a pond.
About an economist, a logician and a mathematician.
12
What does Mrs. Alexander tell Christopher about his mother?
That he saw her in London on a recent visit.
That she is actually alive.
All of the above.
That she had an affair with Roger Shears.
13
Why is Christopher taken to jail?
None of the above.
He hit a policeman who touchedhim.
Wellington's blood was found on his hands.
He asked for a small enclosed place to feel safe.
14
Why does Christopher have to return to Swindon while staying with his mother?
He needs Toby's cage.
He wants to speak to Mrs. Alexander and Siobhan.
He has to take his Math A-levels.
He doesn't - he stays in London.
15
What is Christopher's living situation at the end of the novel?
He lives with his reunited dad and mum in the same house.
He lives with his mother butoften visits his father.
He returns to live with his father as before.
He stays with Siobhan at aboarding house the school runs.

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