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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. What kind of training do Ghost and his teammates do on his first day of practice?

2. What time does Ghost post, for the 100-meter sprint?

3. Who does Ghost claim Coach Brody is to the principal?

4. What was Usain Bolt’s world record time for the 100-meter sprint, according to Coach Brody?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Usain Bolt become important to Ghost?

3. Where is Ghost’s father now?

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

5. What convinces Ghost to try to run against Lu?

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

7. What is Coach Brody’s response to Ghost when Ghost says that he is tired, after half a dozen sprints?

8. How does Ghost end up on the Defenders?

9. Why is Ghost so fascinated with the Guinness Book of World Records?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Evaluate Ghost as a bildungsroman, a coming-of-age narrative. What are the challenges Ghost faces in rites of passage in this novel? How does he overcome these challenges, and what does he learn at each stage? How is Ghost a different person at the end of the novel?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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