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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. Who does Socrates say kept most of the reward money?

2. What does Socrates read Roland?

3. Who invites Socrates over for dinner?

4. Who does Socrates follow home?

5. What does Socrates bury with the remainder of the money?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Roland not like Socrates?

2. Why does Socrates stay at home during the riots?

3. What does Socrates have to do in return for no jail time?

4. How did the bookshop change Socrates?

5. What does Socrates think about the dog paw prints around him when he wakes up on the beach?

6. How does this chapter show that sometimes violence is necessary?

7. How does Socrates build up Darryl's confidence after the fight with Philip?

8. What does the bus driver tell Socrates about the lives of colored people?

9. How does Socrates talk Right out of killing himself with a gun?

10. What do Socrates and Right do at Dilley's

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the novel's chronological setting.

1) What were the main concerns during the 1990s? How does Mosley express these concerns?

2) How would Mosley change the novel if it were set in today's society?

Essay Topic 2

Examine Mosley's writing style. How would you describe Mosley's prose style? What kind of vocabulary does he use? What meaning does Mosley's style give to the story?

Essay Topic 3

What major events had a profound effect on Socrates' life and how did they change him? What does Socrates still have to learn by the end of the book?

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