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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 year was the narrator born?

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

3. In Chapter 3, whom does Winter hear on the radio when she is riding in Midnight's car?

4. What is the name of the boy Winter has a date with on her birthday in Chapter 5?

5. Where does Midnight take Winter and her sisters after they go to the hospital in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Winter learn about Midnight from Rashida?

6. What is Winter's father like?

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

8. What happens on Winter's sixteenth birthday?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the importance of the hip hop music scene throughout the novel? Do you think the novel accurately portrays that world? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

What is the lasting impression that The Coldest Winter Ever makes on the reader? What do you think the author's intent was in writing this novel?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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