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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 many times did Nanny get cancer before she died?

2. In Chapter 12, who punched a security guard in the face?

3. Where was Lil' Rall in Chapter 9?

4. Where did Nanny and Aunt Munch move after leaving the Big Yellow House?

5. In Chapter 10, when was the next time that the family saw Uncle Kevin and Desiree after a wedding where a fracas broke out?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 10, how did Johnson and Garrett spend their summers?

2. How does Johnson remember spending summers?

3. In Garrett's letter to Nanny, what occasion did he remember when she was especially proud of him?

4. What did Lil Rall and Rasul want to do the summer Lil' Kevin came to stay in Plainfield?

5. How was the summer of 1998 a time of change for the family?

6. Why did Kevin come to live in Plainfield in 1996?

7. What time did the family try to start Thanksgiving dinner, and when would they usually start eating?

8. In Johnson's letter to Nanny, what are some things he remembers doing with her?

9. Why did Johnson have to get stitches in Chapter 7?

10. What was life like for Lil' Kevin?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

There was a double standard regarding sexuality for boys and for girls in the Black community. How was there a double standard regarding appropriate sexual behavior for boys and for girls in the Black community?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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