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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Karl write a letter to in Part IV?
(a) City Council.
(b) The President of the United States.
(c) His extended family.
(d) Parents and staff at Sequoia Elementary.

2. What drug does Sasha sometimes take for the pain in their legs?
(a) Morphine.
(b) Dilaudid.
(c) Percocet.
(d) Codeine.

3. How much of Sasha's body did the doctor estimate the burns covered?
(a) 22 percent.
(b) 30 percent.
(c) 10 percent.
(d) 55 percent.

4. What does Richard tell Sasha in one of his letters about routinely writing to them?
(a) He will write once per year.
(b) He will not write again.
(c) He will write twice per week.
(d) He will write once per month.

5. Who did Nancy O'Malley's desk once belong to?
(a) Abraham Lincoln.
(b) Earl Warren.
(c) Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
(d) Thurgood Marshall.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following did Sasha tell doctors in the ER?

2. How long after his arrest did the D.A.'s office release Richard's name to the media?

3. Which college is Sasha accepted into in Part IV?

4. How long after the fire is Sasha released from the hospital?

5. Why does Richard's lawyer delay in sending his letters to Sasha?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do some of Sasha's friends do to show support for Sasha after the attack?

2. What do the police questioning Richard tell him about the evidence they have against him?

3. Why does Sasha feel they were misrepresented in the media coverage of the attack?

4. How do Sasha's parents feel about Richard in Part IV?

5. Do you think it was fair of authorities to charge Richard with a hate crime?

6. How does Sasha feel after they first arrive in the emergency room in Part III?

7. Why is Slater's explanation for the fact that police put suspects in a video room for the first 24 hours of incarceration after being booked for a serious crime?

8. Why is Amy Wilder's revelation so powerful for the group that Kaprice gathers in Part IV?

9. How do many of the people who know Richard best react to the news of his crime?

10. Who is one of the first people Richard wants to tell about what happened on the 57 bus and why?

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