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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. In Chapter 8, where did Wes go to study for a semester?

2. In Chapter 7, how long had Levy gotten out of the hustling game?

3. In Chapter 5, how much taller was Wes than his mother?

4. What year is it in Chapter 5?

5. What was the date in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. As Woody graduated from high school in 1994, what did he remember about his classmates who did not graduate?

2. In Chapter 7, what was wrong with Moore's girlfriend Cheryl?

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

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

5. How many children did Moore have in Chapter 7, how old were they, and who were their mothers?

6. In Chapter 6, why did Moore get arrested?

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

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

9. What happened during the robbery of J. Browns Jewlers?

10. What sentence did all the robbers receive?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 5, Wes and Moore found themselves in new worlds. What were the new worlds the boys had to adapt to? How did being lost in those worlds affect the boys?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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