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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. Which of the following is a category on Thomas’s life chart?

2. Which of the following does Aaron see advertised before the movie he sees with Thomas in a theater?

3. Which of the following does Thomas claim among his culinary repertoire?

4. Which of the following is Elsie wearing when she first meets Thomas?

5. To which of the following does Thomas compare Aaron’s apartment?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reasons does Thomas give for disappointment in his former theater job?

2. What reasons does Aaron give for liking summer in his neighborhood?

3. What does Thomas note liking about Aaron after noting a bad birthday experience to him?

4. How does Aaron regard Thomas’s progress through career ideas?

5. What reasons does Aaron give for wanting to avoid shooting fireworks from roofs?

6. What complaints does Aaron have regarding the shirts Thomas makes available to him?

7. For what does Aaron initially mistake the Leteo Institute’s offerings?

8. What advice does Eric report to Aaron their father would have given for approaching sex?

9. What reasons does Aaron give for calling Brendan his “sort of best friend” (5)?

10. How does Aaron contrast Genevieve’s comfort and his friends’ in the wake of his father’s death?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Aaron comments through much of the text on the lack of money in his household. At the same time, the family is supplied with gaming systems and other luxuries. How, therefore, does the novel define poverty? What in the text supports the definition? How does the text support that definition?

Essay Topic 2

Sibling relationships in the novel are presented with some tension. What effect does that tension have in the novel, and how does that effect present itself?

Essay Topic 3

That Aaron is the protagonist of the novel is clear. What character is next most important in the novel? What makes a character important? How does the chosen character meet that standard? What does it signify that the character does so, and how does that significance manifest?

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