View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, what is the real name of Moore's friend White Boy?

2. What year was it in Chapter 1?

3. When did Winell Thomas's parents leave Havanna for work?

4. What faith did Moore adopt in prison?

5. What football team did Moore play for in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 2, where did Wes's mother sleep and why?

2. In Chapter 4, what did Mary find in Moore's room, and what did she do with it?

3. In Chapter 2, what type of supervision did Moore have?

4. How did Moore meet his father for the first time?

5. Why was Tony known as a gangster in Chapter 2?

6. How did Wes's father die?

7. What story appeared about Moore in the Baltimore Sun in 2000?

8. In Chapter 4, how did Wes feel when he was outside Jessup Correctional Institution?

9. In Chapter 3, what happened that made Mary decide to move?

10. Why did Wes's mother, Joy, leave her first husband, Bill?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Moore had a well-organized drug operation. What did Moore’s organization have in common with capitalism or a pyramid scheme?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

A legacy is something passed down in a family. In what way did Wes’s family provide a legacy for him? What type of legacy did they give him?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 810 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample