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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 is not one of the four friends in The Body?

2. What is the weather like on the night Sandra goes into labor?

3. Who is in the gang of older boys?

4. Who is from a family that is regarded as white trash?

5. What kind of club is the club at 249B?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Ace Merrill's gang sees Chris, Vern, Teddy and Gordon at the site of Ray Brower's body?

2. Describe the relationship between Teddy Duchamp and his father.

3. Who finds Ray Brower's body?

4. Describe the location where Ray Brower's body is found.

5. Who is Kurt's hospital roommate? How do they know each other?

6. What happens when a stand off ensues between Gordon, Chris, Teddy and Vern and Ace Merrill's gang?

7. What did Emlyn do during the years after Sandra's death?

8. What does Kurt do after he finds out he has been turned in to authorities for being a Nazi?

9. Describe what happens right after Emlyn delivers Sandra's baby.

10. How does Kurt find out that he has been turned in to authorities?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Apt Pupil: How did you feel about Kurt by the end of the story? Did you want to see him succeed at the end of the story and become successful and find a way out of his situation? Did your opinions of him have anything to do with him being one of the main characters in the story? Even though Kurt was a bad guy, is it hard to watch the main character in a story fall?

Essay Topic 2

Apt Pupil: In the story Todd and Kurt both have nightmares due to the stories Kurt tells of the concentration camps.Do you think Kurt was wrong for being blackmailed by such a young person and do you think he had any way out of the situation? Do you think Kurt should have tried to cover up some of the things that went on at the concentration camps due to Todd's age, even though Todd wanted to know all of the details? Explain your answers.

Essay Topic 3

The Body: Of the four friends, three died horrific deaths.

1) How did each friend die?

2) What led to each friends death?

3) Which death was the most tragic? Explain why you think so.

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