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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 disappoints the kids who paid for Piper's laundry service?

2. Who decides how the laundry money should be divided?

3. How does Moose describe the meeting with 105?

4. Who intervenes in the argument after the party?

5. Who calms Moose's worries about the origin of Natalie's problems?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Moose and Scout get over their fight about the game night?

2. What does Piper want to do with Moose's convict ball?

3. What does Mrs. Capone do on the boat that is so surprising?

4. What makes Moose so obsessed with getting a convict ball?

5. How does the warden find out about the laundry scheme?

6. What is Natalie's interview for?

7. Why does Moose get embarrassed at Natalie's party?

8. What makes Moose thing that Natalie might not be safe on Alcatraz?

9. What are convict balls?

10. Why does Moose's father get angry and take away his baseball?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did people respond to Natalie's disability, and why do you think there was such a difference in these responses?

Essay Topic 2

What directions did Moose get from the warden, and what was so ironic in these instructions?

Essay Topic 3

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears, and how do the characters touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

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