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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 was the dollar amount of jewlery that the thieves took in Chapter 8?

2. How long was Ray in the hospital after Moore shot him?

3. In Chapter 6, what was Wes's rank at the military academy?

4. How many officers were on the scene to arrest Moore and Tony?

5. In Part 3, how many other people wait with Wes to see inmates?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Moore arrested in Chapter 5?

2. What books did Wes enjoy reading in Chapter 7 and why?

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

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

5. At the end of Chapter 7, how did Moore go from hope to despair?

6. What was ironic about Wes's position in Chapter 6?

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

8. Why did Wes decide to apply to attend Johns Hopkins?

9. Who was Colonel Battaglioli?

10. In Chapter 6, what news did Wes get from Justin?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Moore went after a kid with a knife after the kid punched him. How had Tony been teaching Moore to react to slights? How did Tony influence the way that Moore reacted when people disrespected him or hurt him physically?

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

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?

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