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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 about being raised in the boondocks is relevant to what Mrs. Creed is saying?

2. Who has a vision of Chris hanging in the woods?

3. Who does Torey see in the woods?

4. What can Torey not get out of his head?

5. What does Alex tell Torey about the police chief?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mrs. Adams tell Torey about his vision at the rocks?

2. What upsets Mr. Adams about Torey and what does he tell Torey as he takes him home from school?

3. Where is Torey after he is rescued from the burial grounds and what is he refusing to do? How are the doctors responding to his refusal?

4. What do Torey and Ali do when the police come for Bo?

5. What does Torey first see on his second trip into the burial grounds and what does he decide?

6. What does Mrs. Adams say about Bo and why? What does Ali tell her about her fears?

7. What does Mrs. Creed say to Torey and Ali's statements?

8. What does Leandra accuse Ali of being and how does she react?

9. What does Ali tell Torey about more of Chris's diary she had read?

10. What do Ali and Torey discover about Chris and another town?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Chapter 20 is a turning point for Torey, the moment when he must decide if he will lie down and allow himself to be victimized like the boons have been all these years or rise up and fight. Torey has chosen to fight.

1. Do you think Torey's background gave him the courage to fight for himself, as opposed to the boons? Why or why not? Use ideas from the book and your own life to support your answer.

2. Do you think Bo is allowing himself to be victimized or does he show a consideration for others in his confessing to the phone call? Explain your reasoning.

3. Do you think it is wise for Torey to think the best way to fight for himself is to look for Chris Creed's body? Explain your reasoning.

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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