Full Tilt

Chapters 1-2

Reading Check

1. His hat (Chapter 1)

2. His first roller-coaster ride (Chapter 1)

Short Answer

1. He climbs up the roller coaster to try to get his hat back. (Chapter 1)

2. It looks like the support beams and track are falling off the ride. (Chapter 2)

Chapters 3-4

Reading Check

1. She thinks he is on drugs. (Chapter 3)

2. Seven (Chapter 4)

Short Answer

1. Carl gives him an envelope full of information about New York, which makes Blake feel as if his upcoming move to New York to attend Columbia is really going to happen. (Chapter 3)

2. Blake thinks that Quinn’s spirit is there. (Chapter 4)

Chapters 5-6

Reading Check

1. A blue lion (Chapter 5)

2. His bus crash (Chapter 6)

Short Answer

1. Cassandra can turn their thoughts into rides in the carnival. (Chapter 5)

2. The carnival absorbs and enslaves them. (Chapter 6)

Chapters 7-8

Reading Check

1. Mirrors (Chapter 8)

Short Answer

1. The captain reminds Blake of Carl, and the whale reminds him of his mother. (Chapter 7)

2. The monster is actually Maggie, whose physical features have been warped by the mirrors. (Chapter 8)

Chapters 9-10

1. A plane (Chapter 9)

Short Answer

1. Blake is the first one to take control of his plane, and the other planes follow him as he pulls up to avoid a collision with the battleship. (Chapter 9)

2. Cassandra has promised Russ that if he kills Blake, he can leave the park. (Chapter 10)

Chapter 11

Reading Check

1. An Egyptian temple in ancient Egypt (Chapter 11)

Short Answer

1. Blake gets ahold of the whip and wraps it around the guard’s neck, but he does not kill the guard as everyone urges him to. (Chapter 11)

2. He offers to not complete the remaining rides if Cassandra will spare his brother. (Chapter 11)

Chapters 12-13

Reading Check

1. A spaceship (Chapter 13)

Short Answer

1. A person enslaved by the carnival throws salt into Cassandra’s eyes, and she cannot see to chase them. (Chapter 12)

2. She tells Blake that if he agrees to give up, he can become the other overseer of the park, and Russ, Maggie, and Quinn can all stay as ride creators. (Chapter 13)

Chapters 14-15

Reading Check

1. The Hindenburg (Chapter 14)

Short Answer

1. They fly past landmarks from around the world, which the reader has already seen on the posters in Blake’s room. (Chapters 3 and 14)

2. He remembers that the bus became unbalanced and fell after he opened the rear door and jumped to safety. (Chapter 15)

Chapter 16

Reading Check

1. The house from The Wizard of Oz (Chapter 16)

Short Answer

1. She is trying to meld with him so that she can survive the disintegration of the park. (Chapter 16)

2. He wakes up at the wheel of his car, which has crashed against the tree he narrowly avoided on his way to the park earlier that night. (Chapter 16)