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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 does Ghost call the people on the Stairmaster treadmills?
2. What does Ghost say King usually orders when they order Chinese food?
3. What do Ghost and King do with Ghost’s mother and Aunt Sophie?
4. Why does Ghost not tell the first secret that comes to mind at the Chinese restaurant?
5. What is Ghost’s state of mind after he promises Mr. Charlie he will not skip school?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Shamika atone for embarrassing Ghost the day before?
2. How does Ghost describe his Saturday routine with his mother?
3. What is Sunny’s house like, when Coach Brody and the others go to pick him up?
4. What is the Thursday exercise for the Defenders?
5. What happens to Ghost at Everything Sports?
6. How do Ghost and the other newbies bond on the way to the Chinese restaurant?
7. What is it like for Ghost to see Brandon Simmons again after their fight?
8. How does Ghost say that things changed after everyone tells their secrets at the restaurant?
9. What secret does Sunny tell at the restaurant?
10. When does Ghost start to regret having cut up his shoes?
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
Identify the most important plot points in Ghost. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?
Essay Topic 3
When is Ghost most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?
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