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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 Torey go in his senior year of high school?

2. What does Mrs. Adams want to know about Bo?

3. Why does Mrs. Creed come down to the convenience store?

4. What is Torey doing in the basement?

5. What is obvious in Chapter 5 about the structure of the school's social groups?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Leo do when he comes in Torey's room and how does Torey react?

4. What does Mrs. Adams ask Torey and Ali about the night and what do they say?

5. What do the Creeds announce in church Sunday?

6. What does Leandra say to Torey when he calls her the night of band practice?

7. What does Torey feel in the basement and what does he do about it?

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

9. Who and why does Mrs. Creed thinks might have murdered Chris?

10. What does Torey Adams do in his senior year of high school and what does he think about it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Torey is a sensitive person who can easily put himself into the shoes of any person around him.

1. Why do you think, using examples from the book, that this statement is true?

2. Do you think it's unnatural for a boy to be so sensitive? Why or why not?

3. Pretend you have met someone who comes from a different culture. Discuss the thoughts that might be involved in order to put yourself in that person's shoes.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Torey has changed so completely that he cannot even make himself talk to his friends about what is going on. In the past, Torey would have told Alex anything, but in light of his new friendship with Bo and knowing what has been going on with Ali and Chris, Torey cannot relate to Alex anymore. Torey has matured, while his friends have not.

1. Do you think if you had experienced what Torey has by Chapter 13 in the book you would have changed in the ways he has? Why or why not?

2. Discuss the way that crisis can change a person. Use ideas from the book and your own life to support your answer.

3. Why do you think Torey sees his friends as shallow from all the events up to Chapter 13? Use ideas from the book and your own life to support your answer.

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