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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 do many of Kaprice's students call her?

2. What does Lil' Jerry insist on Kaprice doing?

3. How does Karl rearrange his classroom after speaking with Sasha in Part I?

4. Who is the school compliance officer Richard asks to be in her program?

5. What does Kaprice tell Richard he can call her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sasha convince Karl to change about his kindergarten classroom?

2. What do multiple people say Richard is really good at?

3. Why does Kaprice gently refuse to let Richard call her mom?

4. How does Sasha deal with their bathroom problem at school?

5. How does Richard meet Kaprice?

6. What conclusion does Karl come to about the attack he suffers in 1987?

7. What does the term genderqueer mean to Sasha?

8. What does Slater say makes Oakland feel like a small town?

9. What happens to Richard in Part II after he leaves juvenile detention that shakes him up and scares him?

10. Why does Cherie get upset when talking about her high school friends?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What were some of the challenges and setbacks in Richard's early life that he struggled with that led up to his actions on the 57 Bus? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

What is the process of restorative justice? Do you think Sasha's and Richard's families - and Sasha and Richard themselves - would have benefitted from a restorative justice process? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

What does James B. Jacobs, the director of New York University's Center for Research in Crime and Justice, think is the contradiction inhere in the same groups of people advocating for hate-crimes legislation and advocating against mass incarceration? (174). Do you think Jacobs' arguments are compelling and reasonable? Write an essay explaining why or why not.

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