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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 Santiaga buy his wife as a present after the shooting?

2. Where is Winter's mother shot?

3. Where is Santiaga being sent in Chapter 6?

4. What does Winter eat at the diner after she leaves the lawyer's office in Chapter 7?

5. What is the first thing on Winter's list of things she needs in the group home?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Winter's relationship like with her friends in Brooklyn?

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

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

5. What is Winter's father like?

6. What is Winter's relationship like with her mother?

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

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

9. What seems to be Winter's priorities as she meets with Midnight in Chapter 7?

10. What are Winter's feelings about Brooklyn?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Sister Souljah as both an author and a character in the novel. What impact did her character have on the narrative intent and the reader's experience?

Essay Topic 2

How is winter an appropriate, extended metaphor for the main character's life in the The Coldest Winter Ever? Will there ever be spring or summer in the life of Winter Santiaga?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the theme of love in the novel. Are any characters actions motivated by pure love? What seems to be the strongest character motivation?

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