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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. Where does Socrates take a bus to in this chapter?

2. What does Oscar tell Socrates he is?

3. Who does Socrates decide has posted himself as leader?

4. What part of Philip's body does Darryl manage to hit?

5. What is Burke dying of?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the bookshop change Socrates?

2. What does Right tell Socrates at the bus stop?

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

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

5. Why does the ocean remind Socrates of his aunt?

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

7. What does Socrates do with the reward money?

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

9. Why did Socrates break the driver's nose?

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 Socrates' character across the whole series.

1) How does Mosley develop Socrates' character across the whole series?

2) What new elements does ALWAYS OUTNUMBERED, ALWAYS OUTGUNNED add to Socrates' character?

Essay Topic 2

Examine violence in the novel.

1) How do the characters in the novel view violence?

2) Do the characters need to be violent to cope in the world that Mosley portrays?

3) How did the public react to the novel's violence when it was first published? How would the public react to a similar book today?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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