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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 year was First Sergeant Anderson in Chapter 5?

2. What year is it in Chapter 8?

3. How long was Moore locked up for the incident in which he shot at Ray?

4. Where was Sergent Prothero shot?

5. In Chapter 5, where was Wes's roomate from at military school?

Short Essay Questions

1. When and where did Wes serve in the military?

2. What sentence did all the robbers receive?

3. What happened when Wes would not get out of bed his first morning at the military academy?

4. How did Wes's mother get the money for his first year at the military academy?

5. What did Wes's mother tell him when he called her in Chapter 5?

6. Why did Wes and Dalio have to sneak back to campus in Chapter 6?

7. What family did Prothero leave behind?

8. In Chapter 5, what happened when Wes was given a map to the train station?

9. What did Moore say about expectations in Part 3?

10. What did reading Colin Powell want that Wes also decided he also wanted?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Both Wes and Moore were given second chances. What second chances did they both receive? Did they take advantage of the chances they were given?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Schools in the Bronx were deteriorating and did not prepare students for jobs or college. How did various people view education? How did an education or a lack of education affect the success of people in the book?

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