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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. Where was Angela's body found?

2. What type of music does Tracy's mother play in the car in "Police State"?

3. Where did Tracy hide after her father was arrested, Mr. Ridges was killed, and Quincy was shot?

4. In Tracy's letter to Innocence X on May 7, who wrote the sentence about justice that she quotes?

5. What instrument does Monica like to play?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the problem with Tracy going to the antique store where her mother works?

2. Why is James in prison?

3. How did James, Jackson Rdges, and Mark Davidson do business together?

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

5. What is the only thing that Tracy can do in "The Apple of Our Eye" for her dad?

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

7. What evidence does the sheriff have that seems to indicate that Jamal killed Angela?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the author use current events and historical details in the book? How do the details that the author uses in the book imitate events from real life?

Essay Topic 2

Idioms are words that have a figurative, rather than a literal meaning. How does the author use idioms in the book? Why are the idioms sometimes difficult to understand? Why do the idioms often require research to understand their meaning?

Essay Topic 3

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in the book? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and people?

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