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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 Portia tell her father about Willie?

2. Why is Jake Blount so drawn to Mr. Singer?

3. What does Antonapoulos seem most interested in doing?

4. What happens to Biff Brannon on October 8?

5. In the opening pages of Chapter 3, what are Mr. and Mrs. Brannon arguing about?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what ways do Portia and her father differ in their reaction to Willie's punishment in prison and the loss of his feet?

2. Who is Mick Kelly?

3. What was Mick's theory about the younger kids in a family?

4. What had not changed about Mick Kelly on the evening of August 21, 1939?

5. What is happening with Mick in the opening of Part 2, Chapter 14?

6. In spite of Doctor Copeland seeming to set himself above the other African-Americans in town, how did he feel about them?

7. What does John Singer do when Antonapoulos started getting into trouble?

8. What kind of offer does Lucille present to the Kellys after Bubber shoots her daughter, Baby?

9. What happens when Jake's two coworkers make fun of him behind his back?

10. Why did Doctor Copeland have problems choosing the essay contest winner?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why did John Singer keep his hands in his pocket. What would have happened if he had kept them out of his pockets? Did keeping his hands in his pockets create another mystery about him, or an elusiveness?

Essay Topic 2

Biff Brannon walked by Mick Kelly's house in Part 2, Chapter 8. Why did he feel like he was doing something wrong when he hadn't done anything wrong?

Essay Topic 3

Compare Jake Blount's original intent to become an evangelist and how that is similar, or differs, from what he is doing in the story.

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