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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Carlos confess to Grandma?
(a) He misses Jerome.
(b) The knife was his.
(c) The gun was his.
(d) He hates Jerome.

2. What does Officer Moore say when asked if he shot Jerome from the police cruiser?
(a) He says yes.
(b) He says he had no gun.
(c) He says he thought about it.
(d) He says no.

3. What does Kim offer to do for Carlos?
(a) Help him.
(b) Do his homework.
(c) Make him food.
(d) Be his friend.

4. What does Jerome realize about the ghost boys at the end of the book?
(a) They are all cool.
(b) They are all young.
(c) They all have a living person who sees them.
(d) They are all the same height.

5. Who gifts Kim a book?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Officer Moore.
(c) Grandma.
(d) Carlos.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the prosecutor look on the last day of the hearing?

2. What does Sarah want to do for Jerome?

3. Who is Mrs. Bryant?

4. What does Officer Moore say when asked if he told Jerome to put down the gun?

5. What event happens on April 19?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Jerome tell Sarah she needs to talk to?

2. How did Emmett Till die?

3. Who does Sarah tell Jerome she hates?

4. Why did Emmett's cousins panic when he came out of the grocery store?

5. Who was the living person who could see Emmett Till after he died?

6. What does Kim tell Carlos he needs to do?

7. What is the result of the hearing?

8. What did Emmett's cousins warn him about when they took him to town?

9. What does Jerome think of Carlos?

10. How does Jerome's perspective of Chicago change after death?

(see the answer keys)

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