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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. Who hit Shani in the nose in Chapter 4?
2. What faith did Moore adopt in prison?
3. When Wes and his family moved to his grandparents' home in Chapter 2, how many people lived there after Wes arrived?
4. In Chapter 3 when Justin and Wes got off the subway, how long was the walk home?
5. What year was it in Chapter 1?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Wes research the information he wrote in The Other Wes Moore?
2. How did Moore meet his father for the first time?
3. Where did Mary send Wes to school in Chapter 3 and what was it like?
4. In Chapter 2, what type of supervision did Moore have?
5. In Chapter 4, what happened when the police caught Wes and his friend?
6. How did Wes's father die?
7. In Chapter 4, what did Mary find in Moore's room, and what did she do with it?
8. In Chapter 2, where did Wes's mother sleep and why?
9. What did Wes share about his grandparents in Chapter 2?
10. How did Moore explain the Nikes he had in his room to his mother and his brother in Chapter 4?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Role models can be a positive or negative influence. What are role models? Why are role models important? How did role models affect the lives of Wes and Moore?
Essay Topic 2
The events in the book take place mostly in Maryland and New York. What are the various settings in the book? What feelings or attitudes do these settings evoke for readers? Are the settings a neutral background, not important to the retelling of historical events or do the settings have the importance of a person in the book?
Essay Topic 3
Flashbacks are a means to tell what has happened in the past. How does the author use flashbacks to share information from the past? How does the use of flashbacks affect the narrative?
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