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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. Why does Ghost stop running after a short while after shoplifting shoes?

2. What is it that allows Ghost to tell Mr. Charlie he feels okay in spite of having been locked in the store room yesterday?

3. How does Ghost feel while he is practicing in his new shoes?

4. What saves Ghost from the mortification of everyone’s laughter?

5. What is Ghost’s state of mind after he promises Mr. Charlie he will not skip school?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Shamika atone for embarrassing Ghost the day before?

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

3. What is Ghost’s routine with his mother in the evenings?

4. What secret does Lu tell at the restaraunt?

5. How do Ghost and the other newbies bond on the way to the Chinese restaurant?

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

7. How does Mr. Charles make Ghost feel better for having been laughed at?

8. What secret does Patty tell at the restaurant?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When is Ghost most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?

Essay Topic 2

Ghost and Brandon Simmons start off as enemies, but their relationship undergoes something more complicated than that, when Ghost tells his friends to go easy on Brandon. What are the factors that lead to this change? What are the different directions this relationship could take in upcoming chapters? Using examples from the text, make a case for each of the options, and make a prediction about which direction the author will take this relationship in subsequent books in the series.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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