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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 does Rob die?

2. What is Rob's last name?

3. What does Gerald tell Angel after Jordan is taken away by the police?

4. What does Monique do most of the time while she is recovering?

5. What does Angel beg of Gerald to do after he feeds her while she is feverish?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Monique realize at the end of the book?

2. What does Jordan do when he realizes the flames in the kitchen were getting big?

3. How does Rob die?

4. What ruins Angel's happiness about her honor in the dance class?

5. What makes Gerald proud during his basketball games?

6. How does Rob's father become involved in Gerald and Angel's problems?

7. What does B.J. do for the basketball team, and why?

8. How does B.J. Carson deal with bullies?

9. Why does Andy feel inferior around his friends?

10. How does Angel show the court what Jordan did to her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are some of the key examples of gratitude in this book, and how do these instances affect that characters involved in those scenes?

Essay Topic 2

How does Gerald get Angel out of the burning apartment, and what is ironic about this integral piece of the plot?

Essay Topic 3

What does the title of this theme symbolize, and what does it mean to Gerald and his family by the end of the book?

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