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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 39, where is Benji when the hockey game with Hed is being played?

2. In Chapter 38, what does Hog do while Bobo goes to his first A-team game?

3. In Chapter 36, what does Kira find in a cardboard moving box?

4. In Chapter 31, who does Peter want to choose as a board member?

5. In Chapter 27, how many men from Hed come to fight Teemu and his men?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 32, why does Benji not train with the hockey team?

2. In Chapter 25, how do William and his friends get Leo alone to hurt him?

3. What wakens Benji in Chapter 31?

4. In Chapter 26, why does Teemu Rinnius live at home with his mother?

5. What does Teemu say to Benji at the end of Chapter 39?

6. In Chapter 23, how does Peter lack a killer instinct, and how has that affected his hockey playing?

7. In Chapter 38, what does an older player ask Bobo, and then what do the players do?

8. In Chapter 24, how and why does Teemu go to Alicia's house?

9. In Chapter 30, why does Ana not meet Maya at the island?

10. In Chapter 40, what does one of the Hed players do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Violence is a theme in the novel. How does the author present the theme of violence in the novel? How does violence affect the town and characters?

Essay Topic 2

Peter and Kira are struggling with their relationship. What does their relationship reveal about love and marriage?

Essay Topic 3

Richard Theo manipulates people and events in order to gain power. How does Theo manipulate people and events? How does he use manipulation to gain power? What is revealed about politics through this manipulation?

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