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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 does Cookie tell Jimmy?

2. What does Crab say he was afraid of before he was released?

3. Who does Jimmy watch for out the window?

4. Who does Crab say fingered him for the crime?

5. Where does this person live?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Jimmy's departure with Crab.

2. Where does Jimmy find himself when he wakes up in the car?

3. Where does Jimmy live?

4. What is Jimmy's environment like?

5. What does Mama Jean tell Jimmy when he is leaving?

6. Where does Crab intend to take Jimmy?

7. Where are Jimmy's parents?

8. What favor does Crab do for Mama Jean?

9. What happens when Jimmy arrives in his classroom?

10. What is the destination of Crab's trip with Jimmy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What kind of morality or values does Jimmy learn from his experience with his father? Does he learn to respect the law? Does he learn not to? What law does he learn to respect? How does he learn this? How does it change or define the beliefs he had in the beginning?

Essay Topic 2

Write a character sketch of the author based on his style and content. What values does he hold dear? What are his hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think he is? Anchor your sketch in passages in the book.

Essay Topic 3

Use the book as a meditation on the value of a five-star rating system. Is a five-star system sufficient to a book like this? Would you need to have sub-topics for the rating system, for plot, characterization, language, etc? What other sub-topics would you need? What value or importance gets lost in a five-star scale? Design a scale that would be better for this book.

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