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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 is Steve's reaction to mopping the floor?
2. What is left in the cash register, according to Detective Williams?
3. The witness, Nipping, stipulates that Bobo uses predominately which hand?
4. When Steve's parents come to visit on Sunday, July 12th, what do they bring news of?
5. What is the bad trick O'Brien says Petrocelli is using during the note of Friday, July 10th?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens when Steve is made to mop the floor?
2. What does Steve realize about why there are so many fights in prison after church on Sunday, July 12?
3. Who owns thel gun used in the crime, and is it a legal gun?
4. What is Briggs' objection to what Bobo is wearing when he testifies?
5. Who is Eddie, and what is he accused of?
6. Once each lawyer has rested her case, Steve writes in his journal on Friday, July 17 that it's understandable why other prisoners are obsessed with appeals. What does he realize about their obsession?
7. Describe the type of music Steve writes in his journal on July 17th that he is going to put on the soundtrack of his film.
8. On Sunday the 12th, how does Steve see his brother Jerry?
9. What is the visitors' room like?
10. What does Henry mean in the pretrial questioning when she says she is having trouble testifying that King was involved in the crime?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
This story relies not only on journal entries, but also on scenes from a screenplay to establish plot, setting, characterization, action, and other fictional elements. Write an analytical essay explaining how Walter Dean Myers establishes Steve's point-of-view in these screenplay scenes. In addition, be sure to include detailed analyses of how this specific point-of-view effectively communicates fictional elements including, but not limited to plot, setting, or characterization.
Essay Topic 2
What does this novel communicate to the reader about personal responsibility and guilt? Write an analysis describing and investigating what Myers thinks about these two issues. Be sure to offer working definitions of each, personal responsibility as well as guilt, and determine, through specific and explicit textual analysis, the ways in which these two issues are similar to each other and/or differ from each other.
Essay Topic 3
The fact that Steve is African American plays an important role in the way his court case seems to go, as well as in the way he feels about himself. Describe and analyze the role that race plays in this narrative. You may want to include examples from other characters, white and black, to make your case.
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