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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 try to convince Bix Jerome was doing?

2. What does Jerome ask the Home Economics teacher?

3. What does Jerome notice about Bix's shoes?

4. How is Jerome's question about what they are to make received by the girls?

5. What happens in Jerome's Home Economics class the next week?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Miss Pimton teach to make in the next class and what is Jerome's reaction?

2. Why does Jerome have to find a new place to practice basketball?

3. Why does Bix challenge his stepfather to a one-on-one game and who is to referee the game?

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

5. How does Bix seem in the Home Economics class?

6. How do Bix and Jerome deepen their friendship?

7. What does Bix's stepfather say about Bix's relationship to Bix's mother?

8. What makes Jerome realize Bix is in real trouble?

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

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

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

1. What does the term "author agenda" mean?

2. Name one idea/concept you think may have been a part of the Brooks' agenda. Analyze that idea throughout the book and discuss Brooks' probable agenda concerning that idea.

2. Do you think writers who have an agenda for writing should point it out in a preface?

3. How often do you think fiction is written with a clear agenda in mind by the author?

4. Research the life of Brooks and see if/where his life may have influenced his writing.

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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