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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. How old is Jonah's brother in "Jonah and the Dunk"?
2. Where did the Billings move after their twins graduated from private schools?
3. In "Riot," when Janice and Annette take shelter at Grandma and Paul's place, how many bottles of wine does Paul open?
4. Where does Annette sleep when she and Janice move in with Grandma?
5. Where did Claude's father grow up?
Short Essay Questions
1. What problems is Claude having in "Cookout"?
2. What happens when four teenagers run down Sixty-Seventh Street and confront the cops in "Riot"?
3. Who is Chester Dexter?
4. What does Grandma tell Claude when he keeps running away in "Sixty-Seventh Street"?
5. What happens when Claude identifies George Bones as the person who beat him up?
6. What happened after the fight that Claude's parents had in "Sixty-Third Street Beach"?
7. In "Janice and the Redbelters," what does Paul look like in a photo he shows Claude?
8. How does Grandma get Claude to stop crying?
9. How does Claude remember his father from the last fight he had with Claude's mother?
10. What are the circumstances behind a boy getting killed in "Janice and the Redbelters"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in the book? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and people?
Essay Topic 2
Big Columbus is a leader of a gang called the Redbelters. How do Big Columbus and his gang affect the South Shore when they are active in the community? How is the community also affected when they disappear?
Essay Topic 3
Claude hopes college will improve his life. Why does Claude hope that college will improve his life? What are some of his experiences in college? Does college improve his life as he had hoped?
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