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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 was Buck given his nickname as said in Chapter Six?

2. Who is the guy who gets onto the elevator in Chapter Four?

3. What had people said about Buck’s heritage as said in Chapter Six?

4. Who comes onto the elevator in Chapter Six?

5. What does Will say to explain himself to Uncle Mark in Chapter Four?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who gets on the elevator in Chapter Five? What do the new person and Will do? How does Will feel?

2. According to Chapter Six, why was Shawn upset as he tells to Buck? What does Buck do to comfort him?

3. How is Buck two-sided, as said in Chapter Six? What do people in the neighborhood say about him?

4. When Will hears Buck talking about Shawn being upset in Chapter Six, who does Will think is the guy who bothered Shawn at the convenience store? What does Frick say when asked about Riggs?

5. In Chapter Four, what does Will remember when he realizes the guy who gets onto the elevator is Uncle Mark?

6. What does Uncle Mark have Will do after Will explains his plan to him in Chapter Four? What does Will find when they do this?

7. What does Will’s dad do to Will after he tells Will his story? How does Will respond? How does their interaction end?

8. How had Will’s dad felt after Uncle Mark’s death as told in Chapter Five? What is the figurative language his dad uses to describe how he feels?

9. What happened after Buck had been killed as said in Chapter Six? What had Shawn gone to do?

10. How had Shawn come to know how their dad had passed on as told in Chapter Five? How had Buck become for Shawn after Mikey Holloman had died?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose and watch one of the following films, either “Moonlight” or “Boyz in the Hood.” Then compare the film of your choice to Long Way Down. What does each text represent about ts environment? What does it show about masculinity? How is masculinity shaped by or influenced by the environment? How are the works similar or different? Use at least two examples from each source in comparing.

Essay Topic 2

Long Way Down uses and reinterprets several metaphors throughout the book. Choose one of the metaphors or figures of language used in Long Way Down (such a middle drawer). Find and write three instances of how the metaphor is used and changed or interpreted in new ways throughout the novel. What is the first definition of the word? What is the meaning of the word by the end of the novel? Finally, why is this metaphor used over and over? What is the purpose of the novel in using the same figurative language over and over?

Essay Topic 3

How are women represented in Long Way Down? What are the roles and representations given to them? Write a summary of what you see pulling from two examples in the novel. Then write a claim arguing why you think this representation is shown the way it is. How does this representation connect to the environment of the novel? Use three examples in your claim.

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