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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 many boys were there in the group that nearly killed Denver?

2. In Chapter 13, Denver looked back on life as a sharecropper. How did he feel at age 18 in a 2-room shack with a bed, table, stove and an outhouse?

3. Denver lacked which basic abilities when he arrived in Fort Worth?

4. Same Kind of Different as Me is what type of book?

5. From where was Denver returning when he spotted the white woman with car trouble on the side of the road?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain why Denver's upbringing and level of education might have made it difficult for him to start a new life away from the plantation.

2. How did people at the mission band together to help Deborah after her cancer surgery?

3. How did members of Deborah's immediate family react to her impending cancer surgery and what did they do to prepare?

4. Explain the conflict over white women between the "good ole' boys" and black men during the time that Denver was growing up in Louisiana.

5. Explain how sharecropping works and tell about Denver's experience with sharecropping.

6. How did Denver's encounter with the white woman with a flat tire impact his life?

7. At the end of the book, where did Ron go to live and why, and why did Denver come with him?

8. After Deborah was given only weeks to live, why did Denver say that Deborah "ain't goin nowhere"?

9. Explain why Denver's trip with Ron to the annual Cowboy Spring Gathering was a turning point in Denver's life in which he overcame a life-long fear.

10. In what ways did Ron's grandfather, a blackland farm owner, treat his black and white employees differently?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

At age 18, Denver worked for the Man, but surveyed his lifestyle and decided he lived "high on the hog."

Part 1. Explain what "high on the hog" means and give an example.

Part 2. Explain what Denver had. Did he actually own these things?

Part 3. If Denver was living "high on the hog," why do you think he eventually escaped on the freight train?

Essay Topic 2

Sharecropping has been called a modern form of slavery. It was all Denver knew for the first thirty years of his life.

Part 1. Explain how sharecropping works.

Part 2. Describe the life of the sharecropper who harvests the land.

Part 3. Explain who the Man is.

Essay Topic 3

Both Ron and Denver must overcome issues and preconceived notions about certain kinds of people in order for their friendship to begin and to thrive as it does.

Part 1. Explain the ideas that Ron had about homeless people and give an example of why he might have felt this way.

Part 2. Explain Denver's ideas about white men and give an example of why he might have felt this way.

Part 3. Describe how Denver and Ron developed a mutual trust and respect for each other that changed how they each felt about white men and colored men.

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