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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What dress does Miss Dudley wear when Butler takes a room in her apartment?

2. On page 100, what color water does Rose bathe Benjie in?

3. What note does Benjie think his geography teacher sounds like?

4. Who introduced Benjie to Walter?

5. On page 74, how long has Benjie been home from the hospital?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Nigeria Greene like to think about Blacks?

2. What does Benjie say about his counselor on page 87?

3. How does Mrs. Bell feel about Butler leaving?

4. How does Tiger let people know when his aunt is home and he cannot have kids over smoking and doing drugs?

5. What does the reader look like?

6. How do Rose and Butler dress and act when they go out?

7. How does Benjie feel about being in the hospital?

8. Why was it nice for Benji to know someone like Tiger?

9. Why does Benjie's new bedspread in his room have bunnies on it?

10. What does Miss Emma Dudley think of Butler?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Idioms are words that have a figurative, rather than a literal meaning. How does the author use idioms in the book? Why are the idioms sometimes difficult to understand? Why do the idioms often require research to understand their meaning?

Essay Topic 2

Benjie used to like Greene. Why does Benjie begin to not like Greene? Why does he think Greene is a traitor?

Essay Topic 3

Benjie decides to mainline after he is called a name. How does peer pressure cause Benjie to begin mainlining? Does he want to mainline? What is conveyed about the negative effects of peer pressure by his decision?

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