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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 is one complaint Torey's group has about the boons?

2. Where was Alex instead of at band practice?

3. About what is Bo worried?

4. What is the result of Leo coming on too strongly to other guys in trying to make friends?

5. What does Alex say he can do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Torey and his friends talk about when they discuss Chris Creed and how they acted towards him?

2. Why did Mrs. Creed come down to the store on Saturday?

3. What does Torey do when he calls Mrs. Creed?

4. Who does Torey find when he enters the cafeteria?

5. What does Torey do when Alex and Ryan don't show up for band practice?

6. What does Torey put on the table where he is sitting with his friends?

7. What did Torey do about Alex not showing up for band practice? What did Alex do?

8. Why does Torey want to talk to the person he saw from question 13?

9. How do Torey's friends act when talking about Chris and how does he feel?

10. What did Torey think the Creeds were hoping for about their son?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Just as everyone predicted, Bo is taken into custody for the murder of Christopher Creed. Despite Torey's insistence that he made the phone call that Bo confessed to and Ali's attempt to confess about the note on the disk, the cops do not care. Again this goes to the theme of perception versus reality.

1. What do you think is meant by the last part of this statement?

2. Do you believe police in real life would ignore Torey and Ali's confessions? Explain in depth your reasoning.

3. How often in life do you think people's perceptions are false? Explain some situations in which that happens most often.

Essay Topic 2

Bo announces to everyone that Renee should not talk about Ali's mother because her own father slept with her all last year.

1. Do you think it was right or wrong of Bo to bring Renee's father and Ali's mother into a public fight? Explain in depth your reasoning.

2. Discuss the implications of Bo knowing about an affair the chief of police had.

3. If you were Ali, how would you feel about Bo's announcement and what would you do?

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 1, Torey compares the boy Leo to Chris Creed.

1. Why do you think Torey sees Chris Creed in Leo, from the amount of detail you've been given thus far.

2. How would you feel about someone doing what Leo did when he came in Torey's room? Would you have done something different than what Torey did? Why or why not?

3. Explain why you think Torey trying to keep Leo from seeing his email project.

4. Explain in detail about a student in your school who tends to be unpopular, why it is so and how others react to this person.

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