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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 was on the written on the card that Mr. Singer gave Jake Blount?

2. What about Jake Blount seems to stand out most to Brannon?

3. What happens to Singer after Antonapoulos was gone?

4. What does Portia tell her father about Willie?

5. What does Mick do most nights?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Blount return to Mister Singer's room?

2. Why did the four people, Mick Kelly, Jake Blount, Doctor Copeland, and Biff Brannon visit Mister Singer so often?

3. What kind of offer does Lucille present to the Kellys after Bubber shoots her daughter, Baby?

4. Why did Mister Singer arrange a special trip to visit Antonapoulos before his vacation?

5. Why did Biff Brannon seem to be closer to his wife than they were when she was alive?

6. What is the difference between Jake Blount and Doctor Copeland's feelings about inequality of the races and the power of the rich?

7. What changed about Biff Brannon's feelings for Mick?

8. What does Blount want even more than a job?

9. What had not changed about Mick Kelly on the evening of August 21, 1939?

10. What question was plaguing Biff Brannon as he watched Mister Singer, Jake Blount, and Mick Kelly together?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Evaluate the composition written by the young boy and determine what were the problems Doctor Copeland had with the composition.

Essay Topic 2

Describe the kind of relationship Mick Kelly has with her family, especially her mother. Why doesn't Mick confide in her parents about her dreams? What happened to the close relationship she once had with her older brother? Why does Mick seem closest to her younger brothers? At one point in the novel Mick keeps asking her brother Bubber/George if he loves her. Why was it so important to her that he love her not just because she was his sister?

Essay Topic 3

Mick Kelly's dream was to be a famous pianist. Was this dream realistic? What would she have had to overcome to achieve her dream? What talent, if any, did she show in the story that might lead the reader to believe this dream might come true one day? Did Mick see being a pianist as a means to travel around the world, or were the dreams to play piano and travel independent of one another?

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