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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 is a child at the scene of the car accident on 676?

2. What is the middle name of Jen's baby?

3. How far back does the "colored" cemetery (187) date back to where Gigi is buried?

4. What is the name of Jen's OB?

5. How does Jen learn that Gigi is dead?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Willie, a man Jen meets at the car rental in Birmingham and then at the Memorial for Peace and Justice, say about his grandfather?

2. How does Jen remember feeling when she went to see Riley at Northwestern?

3. What does Scotty have to say when he learns that Riley is friends with Jen?

4. How did Riley meet Corey?

5. How was Justin different in appearance from the suspect the police were searching for?

6. What does Cookie tell Jen when she is making Christmas bread?

7. Why did Jenny not go to college?

8. How does Riley feel when Jen says in an email that things can get back to normal and they can have dinner together?

9. What does Riley do at the end of Chapter 9 and why?

10. Where is Jen when she goes into labor and what happens?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Colors are sometimes associated with mood. If you could assign a color to represent the mood of We Are Not Like Them, what color would it be? Why? Would you choose different colors to describe the mood in different sections?

Essay Topic 2

Pride and Piazza use backstories, exposition, and flashbacks to reveal information about characters and events that happened before the story begins. What are some examples of how the authors reveal information about characters and events that happened before the story begins? Why is information about the past important? How does that information help readers understand characters and events?

Essay Topic 3

Idioms are words that have a figurative, rather than a literal meaning. How do Pride and Piazza use idioms in We Are Not Like Them? Why are the idioms sometimes difficult to understand? Why do the idioms often require research to understand their meaning?

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