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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 does Claude remember he was when his grandma used to swing him out the front door?

2. What is the name of Teeth's sister who is in Claude's class at school?

3. Where did Paul and Grandma meet?

4. Where does Janice say that her parents died?

5. When was Martin Luther King Jr. shot?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Grandma tell Claude when he keeps running away in "Sixty-Seventh Street"?

2. What happened when Big Columbus disappeared?

3. What happens when Claude identifies George Bones as the person who beat him up?

4. How does Claude remember his father from the last fight he had with Claude's mother?

5. What happened after the fight that Claude's parents had in "Sixty-Third Street Beach"?

6. How did Paul and Grandma meet?

7. Where did Claude's father grow up?

8. How does Janice change in "Chester Dexter and Renaissance"?

9. What was Nugget's life like?

10. Who is Chester Dexter?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

The author uses historical details in the novel. How does the author use historical details in the book? How do the details that the author uses in the book about Chicago imitate events from real life?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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