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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 is the name of the Santiagas' housekeeper?

2. Who had information about Midnight in Chapter 11?

3. Who is Winter's best customer at the group home?

4. What game does Winter play with her father?

5. How much money does Midnight give Winter in Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens when Winter returns from celebrating her seventeenth birthday with her Brooklyn friends?

3. What does Winter decide is her best plan of action after meeting with the lawyer in Chapter 7?

4. What does Winter learn about Midnight from Rashida?

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

6. What happens when Winter goes back to Brooklyn to see her old friends in Chapter 8?

7. What are Winter's feelings about Brooklyn?

8. What does the lawyer tell Winter and her mother after Mrs. Santiaga gets out of jail?

9. What is Winter's main concern after her mother returns from the hospital with her disfigured face?

10. What happens on Winter's sixteenth birthday?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the difference between the flat and round characters in The Coldest Winter Ever. What purpose did Winter serve in the narrative? What purpose did Midnight serve?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the ending of the novel in terms of the arc of the story and reader expectations. Is The Coldest Winter Ever a cautionary tale?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the theme of life and death in the novel in terms of both physical death and spiritual death.

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