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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. How old was Cheryl when she and Moore met?

2. What is the date in Chapter 7?

3. How many children did Sergent Prothero have?

4. How many children did Moore have in Chapter 7?

5. In Chapter 5, what time does Wes have to get up in the morning?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What family did Prothero leave behind?

7. How did Wes feel when he jumped out of a plane in Chapter 7?

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

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

10. Why did Moore drop out of school after leaving juvenile detention?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Wes and Moore had siblings. Were the relationships that Wes and Moore had with their siblings positive or negative?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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