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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 color are Dean's eyes?

2. In "Police State," who meets Tracy and her mother at the police station?

3. What does Tracy find in the warehouse in "Don't Freeze"?

4. Where does Jamal plan to go to college?

5. Who does Lillian leave Tracy with when they leave the police station in "Police State"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Quincy help Tracy when her father was in jail?

2. What does Tracy learn from reading text messages on Angela's phone?

3. How does Tracy interfere with Jamal's interview?

4. What does Tracy remember doing with her father when she was Corinne's age?

5. What does Corinne tell Susan Touric about her brother during the interview?

6. Why does Jamal have an interview on the Susan Touric Show?

7. Who is Beverly Ridges?

8. In "Past is Always Present," why does Tracy think that Quincy knows something about Jamal?

9. In "Like Father, Like Son," what does Tracy's father say when she tells him what she wants to for a career?

10. How were kids cruel after Tracy's father was arrested?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Backstories are used to present information about events that happened before events in the novel. How do backstories provide insight into characters and events? What is the importance of backstories in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

How does the author use analogies in the book? How do analogies help readers understand unfamiliar ideas or understand events or characters?

Essay Topic 3

Conflicts between characters are often caused by a problem. What are some conflicts that occur in the novel? Are the conflicts in the book mostly man vs. man, man vs. nature, or man vs. self? Are they internal or external conflicts?

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