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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 one of the books that Midnight offers Winter in Chapter 4?

2. Where is Winter's mother taken in Chapter 6?

3. What is the one thing Winter is focused on as she leaves the first visit to the lawyer's office?

4. What is the name of Winter's first sugar daddy?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe what Winter is like in the first six chapters of the novel.

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

5. What happens on Winter's sixteenth birthday?

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

7. What does Winter want from Will in Chapter 9?

8. What is Winter's father like?

9. What is the fate of Winter's sisters after they are picked up by the Bureau of Child Welfare?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Discuss how the character Bullet was used throughout the novel. Contrast his qualities and choices to those of Midnight and Ricky Santiaga.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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