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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 Matt when his dad spanked him for getting into a fight with Garrett and choking him?

2. When did Lil' Rall and Rasul first move to Plainfield?

3. How many of Nanny's siblings died in a house fire when she was a little girl?

4. What was the name of the white woman who accused Emmett Till of whistling at her?

5. In Chapter 5, from what hours would Uncle cut hair on Saturdays?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Nanny do when Aunt Cynthia called her a bitch over the phone?

2. What did Justice remember that he and Nanny used to love?

3. What did Nanny always say about having multiple ways to make money?

4. Why were Johnson and his cousins never allowed to go outside with a toy gun?

5. How did Nanny discipline the boys?

6. Who was Nanny?

7. In Chapter 4, how did Johnson feel about shooting a gun?

8. Who was Emmett Till?

9. Why was Nanny not arrested for punching Mrs. Todd?

10. What did Johnson say about the book and why he wrote it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Rasul and his cousins remembered a fight Rasul had with a boy named Kelly. How was Rasul’s version of the fight different from what his cousins remembered? What is communicated about truth through the different versions?

Essay Topic 2

Johnson believed that change was “one of the only constants in life” (129). Why did Johnson believe that change was one of the only constants in life? What were the pros and cons of change?

Essay Topic 3

Setting is the place and time where a narrative takes place. What is the setting in We Are Not Broken? How does the setting evoke feelings or set the mood in the book?

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