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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. Where is Winter forbidden to go?

2. Who calls Winter from jail in Chapter 11?

3. How sure was the lawyer that he could get Winter's mom out of jail?

4. What does Winter's father give her when she is born?

5. What is the name of the club owner that tells Santiago that Winter is in Brooklyn in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Winter's elaborate plan to celebrate her seventeenth birthday?

2. What happens to Winter and her family in the days after Santiaga is arrested?

3. What is Mrs. Santiaga's first concern after she is released from jail?

4. How did Midnight manage to stay out of jail while Santiaga and all his associates are in prison?

5. What does Winter notice as she rides in Midnight's car after her mother has been shot?

6. Why does Midnight suddenly appear at the Santiaga home in Chapter 4?

7. What is Winter's father like?

8. What happens when Winter visits her father's lawyer in Chapter 6?

9. What does Winter discover about her father when she takes her mother to visit him in prison?

10. What happens the first time Winter escapes Long Island to go into Brooklyn?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the use of descriptive and vulgar language and the impact these had on the narrative value of the novel.

Essay Topic 2

Winter often refers to her lifestyle as a game and her choices as strategic moves in the game. What do you think Winter means by this? What are the rules to Winter's game? Who makes the rules? Does Winter win or lose the game?

Essay Topic 3

What is ironic about Winter's attitude in prison? How does the author draw on this irony to illustrate a greater truth?

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