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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 Shamika make amends to Ghost for laughing at him?

2. Who is Coach Brody talking to while he waits for Ghost to come to the car before dinner on Friday night?

3. What does Ghost order at the Chinese restaurant?

4. What does Dre tell Ghost everyone is talking about at school?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Ghost at Mr. Charles’ store, after Ghost had left Everything Sports?

2. What secret does Lu tell at the restaraunt?

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

4. What does Ghost tell Coach Brody when Coach Brody asks him where he got the shoes?

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

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

7. What is Ghost’s mother’s homework, and what kind of education is it part of?

8. What is Sunny’s house like, when Coach Brody and the others go to pick him up?

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

10. When does Ghost start to regret having cut up his shoes?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How would you rewrite Ghost, if you were to adapt it and make it your own. What part of the book would you preserve? What part would you change? Explain your motivation for the changes you would make.

Essay Topic 2

Identify the most important plot points in Ghost. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?

Essay Topic 3

In a number of places, key characters behave really admirably toward Ghost, helping him stay on track and excel. How are these characters different from the characters you might meet in typical stories of young black men whose fathers are gone or in prison? Describe what makes Ghost different. Pick a scene and say how a stereotypical story would go.

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