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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 was Nigeria's nickname?

2. What organization did Nigeria's grandfather belong to?

3. Who goes with Nigeria to take Benjie to the principal when he is stoned?

4. What does Mrs. Bell remember they forced her to make at the old folks' club?

5. Where did Nigeria's father work?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jimmy-Lee say about his father?

2. What does Walter say about what he does?

3. How did Rose meet Butler?

4. What does Benjie's stepfather say about opportunity?

5. Why did Benjie take money out of his grandmother's purse?

6. What does Benjie think about lying, and how did he break his code?

7. What does Benjie remember about Christmas and life before Butler came?

8. What is segregation in reserve?

9. What does Mrs. Ransom Bell say about getting old?

10. Why did Rose not go to a ball game with Butler and Benjie?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Idioms are words that have a figurative, rather than a literal meaning. How does the author use idioms in the book? Why are the idioms sometimes difficult to understand? Why do the idioms often require research to understand their meaning?

Essay Topic 2

Benjie decides to mainline after he is called a name. How does peer pressure cause Benjie to begin mainlining? Does he want to mainline? What is conveyed about the negative effects of peer pressure by his decision?

Essay Topic 3

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in the book? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and people?

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