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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 Mike buy for Amelia when he gets his first motorcycle?

2. What does Mr. Marsh call Mike?

3. What keeps Mike away after burying the portrait of Amelia?

4. Why is Amelia not at home when Mike visits Michigan?

5. What makes Mike think he is being set up when he visits Amelia one night?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mike feel when he hears the red pager beeping?

2. Why is Ghost leaving for Florida?

3. What does Sleepy Eyes show Mike to show the importance of the loyalty test?

4. What does Amelia show in her first comic strip for Mike?

5. What does the Ghost tell Mike about himself?

6. What causes the Man From Detroit to give Mike a second chance?

7. What happens when the back door is left unlocked for Mike at night?

8. How does Mike figure out where to find Amelia while visiting Michigan?

9. Why does Mike choose to create comic strips of Amelia?

10. What did Mike's father do when Mike got in the gun safe?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which character did you relate with the most in this book? Why is this? How did this character change throughout the book?

Essay Topic 2

Lucy was a minor character whose presence made a big difference in the plot. How did she accomplish this? What are some ways that his presence, however brief, altered the outcome of the plot? What would have happened differently if she had not been in the book at all?

Essay Topic 3

Many different characters in this book were persuaded to do things that they would not have done of their own accord. What are some of these instances, and how did persuasion affect the course of the plot?

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