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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 Ghost pledge to do before the food comes at the Chinese restaurant?
(a) Agree to the coach’s rules.
(b) Not get in any trouble at school.
(c) Take some home to his mother.
(d) Make Coach Brody proud.

2. What is Ghost’s history of skipping school?
(a) He skips school all the time.
(b) He only misses school with a note.
(c) He has never done it before.
(d) He skips rarely.

3. What do Ghost and King do with Ghost’s mother and Aunt Sophie?
(a) Play cards.
(b) Go to the park.
(c) Clean the house.
(d) Go shopping.

4. How does Ghost feel while he is practicing in his new shoes?
(a) Like he is being chased.
(b) Like someone is waiting for him at home.
(c) Like he is running on borrowed time.
(d) Like he got away with something.

5. Who is Coach Brody talking to while he waits for Ghost to come to the car before dinner on Friday night?
(a) Ghost’s neighbor.
(b) Mr. Jefferson.
(c) Aunt Sophie.
(d) Ghost’s mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Sunny’s neighborhood like?

2. Why does Mr. Charles say he had been laughed at in his family?

3. Who is it that smells like flowers in Coach Brody’s car?

4. What is it that makes Aunt Sophie cool in Ghost’s eyes?

5. Who is it who starts a fight at the basketball court?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Ghost at Everything Sports?

2. What secret does Sunny tell at the restaurant?

3. Why does Ghost hide his cut-up shoes from his mother?

4. How does Ghost say that things changed after everyone tells their secrets at the restaurant?

5. What secret does Coach Brody tell at the restaurant?

6. How do Ghost’s teammates react to his new shoes?

7. How does Mr. Charles repair Ghost’s feelings from getting locked in the stockroom?

8. What goes on at the basketball court when Ghost goes there after school on Friday?

9. How does Ghost describe his Saturday routine with his mother?

10. What is the Thursday exercise for the Defenders?

(see the answer keys)

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