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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. Why does Jimmy want to borrow someone's notebook?

2. Why did this person shift the blame to Crab?

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

4. Who does Jimmy watch for out the window?

5. Who died in the events for which Crab was arrested?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Jimmy's relationship with Mama Jean?

2. Where does Crab intend to take Jimmy?

3. What makes Crab nervous when they stop?

4. Why was Crab in prison?

5. Where does Jimmy live?

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

7. Where are Jimmy's parents?

8. What is Jimmy's environment like?

9. Describe Jimmy's departure with Crab.

10. What happens when Crab comes back to the car?

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

How likely is Jimmy to go to school, and be a good student, as a result of the events described in the novel? What would happen in a sequel to "Somewhere in the Darkness"?

Essay Topic 3

At the end of the novel, Jimmy asks Crab what the goal of going to California would be. How important are goals in "Somewhere in the Darkness"? Does a plan need to have a goal for it to be important? Which characters have different beliefs about this question?

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