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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 Paul do to the player in question number 92?

2. What does Paul do at the Cruz farm on Saturday?

3. What does Victor tell Paul about team members?

4. Why did Joey try to take MIke's shoe off?

5. What does Paul learn Wayne has been hired to do besides his regular job?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Joey and Tino clash in the group and what is the result of that clash?

2. What do Tino and Theresa say about a possible subject for the group project?

3. When and why do Arthur and Erik make fun of Joey?

4. What does Paul take with him on his first day at Tangerine and what does he tell his mother?

5. What does Henry's brother tell Paul about the muck problem?

6. What does Victor and his friends tell Paul about the incident at the carnival?

7. What does Joey say about typing up the project?

8. How does Theresa treat Paul at first and what does Paul learn from her about her brother?

9. What do Paul and Joey see about a few houses in the neighborhood when they come home from school?

10. Who is Henry's brother and how does Paul know him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Titles often play a vital role in making a person decide to read a particular book. Discuss the following:

1. Fully explain why you think Tangerine is titled as such. Do you think it is the best title for the book? Why or why not? Can you think of a better title? Why would you choose it?

2. How important is a title in influencing you to consider reading a book? Explain your answer.

3. Do you think a title needs to have direct relevance to a book's content? Explain your answer.

4. Have you ever read a book that when you finished, you do not understand the relevance of the title? Does it discourage you from "trusting" that particular author again?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss one of the following:

1. Trace and analyze the theme of growth in Tangerine. Consider the following questions as you write: What characters are most concerned with growth? Why? What are some symbols of growth? Symbols of rigidity? What characters seem rigid?

2. Trace and analyze the theme of courage in Tangerine. Which characters struggle with this issue? Why? Which characters seem to possess courage? Why?

3. Trace and analyze the theme of death in Tangerine. Consider the death of Mike as an random act of nature and the death of Luis as the result of conscious violence. Consider also in your answer the death of innocence in Paul from the beginning of the book to the end.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the following:

1. What do you think are the characteristics of a successful novel?

2. Analyze and discuss Tangerine based upon the criteria you decide upon in #1 and judge if Tangerine is a successful novel.

3. Do you think the criteria for a successful novel should be different if it is written for adults versus young adults? Why or why not? Would most adults consider Tangerine a successful novel? What about young teens?

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