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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 does Ghost characterize his responses to the insults?

2. Who does Ghost model his career expectations on?

3. What animal does Ghost say Coach Brody looks like?

4. What does Ghost go to the bus stop for?

5. How does Ghost characterize Brandon’s personality?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Ghost’s relationship with basketball?

2. How do sunflower seeds connect Ghost with his father?

3. What does Coach Brody tell his athletes about the team they are on?

4. How does Ghost explain the altercation to Coach Brody so that he does not get kicked off the team?

5. How does Ghost end up on the Defenders?

6. What does Ghost say is in his file at school?

7. How does the team handle it when Lu starts insulting Ghost?

8. How does Usain Bolt become important to Ghost?

9. How does Ghost convince the principal not to suspend him?

10. What does Brandon tease Ghost about, that leads to the fight?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Evaluate Ghost as a bildungsroman, a coming-of-age narrative. What are the challenges Ghost faces in rites of passage in this novel? How does he overcome these challenges, and what does he learn at each stage? How is Ghost a different person at the end of the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Write an evaluative review of Ghost. What is this book’s place in culture? What are its uses? What are its limitations?

Essay Topic 3

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

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