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1. The novel opens with a scene regarding the schoolyard bully and introduces us to Mr. Smith, the new substitute teacher. Mr. John Smith comes out and breaks up a fight between Duncan Dougal and who else?
2. Susan and the rest of the class are bummed out because John Smith is replacing their favorite teacher. What is that teacher's last name?
3. Susan is not happy at all about the way Mr. Smith is running the class. She writes a note to Stacey Benoit, where she rants about how she dislikes Mr. Smith. She just learned a new word from her father, and used this word to describe Mr. Smith. What is that word?
4. Mr. Smith takes up the tests and picks up Susan's note. Susan decides to follow Mr. Smith home to see if she can get her note back. Mr. Smith goes into his house. Susan waits for Mr. Smith to come back out as he left the school papers outside, but decides to go into the house for what reason?
5. Susan is panicked. Mr. Smith is an alien named Broxholm. Not only is her teacher an alien, he is going to take students back with him for the aliens to study. She decides to enlist Peter Thompson to assist her, as he is the smartest kid in class and also reads a lot of science fiction. She sits down to Peter one recess period. What is the book Peter is reading?
6. Eventually Peter and Susan decide they must break into Mr. Smith's house to get evidence that he is an alien. Although they do not find evidence they can use to convince others, what do they find?
7. Rumours begin circulating that Mr. Smith is an alien. What two students stage a fight in order to be knocked out of the "best student" category?
8. Peter and Susan decide they must take photographs of an alien artifact in the house. They bring a third person with them for lookout. This person turned on the communication device accidental and saw another alien face to face. Who is this person?
9. Early in the novel Coville establishes the fact that Mr. Smith hates music because it hurts his ears. In the novel's climax, Susan plays a specific instrument during the end of school activity with all the band that causes Mr. Smith so much pain that Susan forces him to unmask himself, revealing to all the children and parents in Kennituck Falls that Mr. Smith is actually an alien named Broxholm. What instrument does Susan play in the novel's climax?
10. As the novel ends, Broxholm escapes and flies off in his UFO. What student goes with him?
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