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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. Who does Coach Brody say is the best of all time in basketball?

2. How does Ghost say he feels about his father’s sentence?

3. What does Ghost answer Mr. Charles' greeting with, every day?

4. How does Ghost compensate for embarrassing himself, tripping over his shoelace?

5. Who does Ghost admit to Coach Brody he is most afraid of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Ghost’s personality like?

2. Where does Ghost take his name from?

3. What does Ghost do during the time he is altercation-free?

4. How does Ghost end up on the Defenders?

5. What does Ghost say is in his file at school?

6. What does Coach Brody tell his athletes about the team they are on?

7. How does the team handle it when Lu starts insulting Ghost?

8. What are “ladders” to Ghost and the other runners (62)?

9. What happened when Ghost’s father “lost it” (5)?

10. What is Ghost’s first impression of Lu?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Evaluate the ending of Ghost. Does it ring true to you? Does it successfully resolve the problems and tensions that preceded it? What would you change, if anything? What are you left wishing for closure on, if anything? Does it make you want to read the sequel?

Essay Topic 2

What effect does Ghost’s father’s ‘losing it’ have on Ghost, and how does he repair that effect through the course of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Who is the audience for Ghost? What is the ideal reader for Ghost likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?

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