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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. What is the vehicle of Richard’s metaphor about the unfairness of the world?

2. With which of the following does Chapter 40: "What’s Up" begin?

3. With which of the following does Chapter 41: "Later" begin?

4. With which of the following does Chapter 63: "Rules" begin?

5. With which of the following does Chapter 46: "Dog Pile" begin?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Bernard improvise an armband?

2. What reason does Bernard give for having defended Alex?

3. How does the novel define “dog-piling” (248)?

4. Why does Shayla reject the premise of “blue lives matter”?

5. Why does Shayla tell Bernard to take off his improvised armband?

6. What consequences does Shayla anticipate facing for students wearing armbands?

7. What reasons does Julia give for demurring from wearing a black armband when Shayla offers her one?

8. What does Shayla note wanting for Christmas (194)?

9. Why, per Hana, do those in power quash protests?

10. How is Coach West dressed when she greets Shayla at the mall?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Aside from concerns of racial tensions, what is the most important theme of A Good Kind of Trouble. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Explicate the significance of the protagonist’s family name.

Essay Topic 3

To what extent can the protagonist be read as a stand-in for the author? What in the text and its contexts suggests as much, and how does it do so?

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