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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 Jerome notice about Bix's clothes?

2. What does Jerome's mother say she wants to do before Jerome goes with Bix to the hospital?

3. For what does Jerome pretend to be searching?

4. Of what does Bix accuse Jerome?

5. What does Jerome's mother want Jerome to do with what he wins?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Jerome surprised to see when he arrives at the basketball court?

2. How does Jerome win a lantern?

3. How do Bix and Jerome deepen their friendship?

4. What does Jerome look forward to in his Home Economics class, and what surprises him when he arrives there?

5. How long of a break is there when Jerome and Bix do not see each other, and what does Jerome do as far as practicing basketball in the meantime?

6. What does Bix do in the Home Economics class that is disturbing?

7. How does Jerome's new lantern help him with his basketball practice?

8. About what does Bix challenge Jerome?

9. How does Jerome feel going down the path to the court at night and what exacerbates those feelings?

10. How does Bix make steps towards a friendship with Jerome?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. What is foreshadow? How many incidences of foreshadow are in The Moves Make the Man? How does foreshadow contribute to a book's suspense?

2. Discuss an example of foreshadow in The Moves Make the Man including why you believe it is foreshadow. Include examples from the book and your own life to illustrate your answer.

3. How do you think most people react to uncertainty in their lives? Use examples from The Moves Make the Man and your own live to support your opinion.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss one of the following:

1. Trace and analyze the theme of growth in The Moves Make the Man. Consider the following questions as you write: What characters are most concerned with growth? Why? What are some symbols of growth? Symbols of rigidity? What characters seem rigid?

2. Trace and analyze the theme of courage in The Moves Make the Man. Which characters struggle with this issue? Why? Which characters seem to possess courage? Why?

3. Trace and analyze the theme of truth in The Moves Make the Man. Consider also the theme of lying as opposed to truth and what truths are presented.

Essay Topic 3

The book's concluding moments draw Jerome's journey of transformation, his coming of age, to a close. Over the course of The Moves Make the Man, Jerome grows as a person in both complexity and understanding. The Moves Make the Man might be considered a slice of Jerome's larger story of his "coming of age." It might be said that The Moves Make the Man is a "bildungsroman" of Jerome Foxworthy. Discuss the following:

1. Define Bildungsroman, or "Coming of Age," and give several examples from literature you have read.

2. Trace and analyze the character of Jerome as he changes from a more carefree, innocent boy to a wiser, young man. What are the significant events that change Jerome?

3. After thoroughly analyzing Jerome's growth throughout The Moves Make the Man, do you think The Moves Make the Man could be considered Jerome's Coming of Age story? Why or why not?

4. Are there any other characters in The Moves Make the Man who go through a Coming of Age experience? Who? Why do you think so?

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