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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 many stories tall are the Murphy Homes?

2. How many bedrooms did Wes's grandparents house have?

3. In Chapter 2, how many people lived in Cherry Hill?

4. Who got Moore out of jail in Chapter 2?

5. Who hit Shani in the nose in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 3, why did Wes get suspended from school?

2. What confused Moore about his relationship with Tony in Chapter 4?

3. Why did Moore get arrested in Chapter 2?

4. Where did Mary send Wes to school in Chapter 3 and what was it like?

5. How did Moore explain the Nikes he had in his room to his mother and his brother in Chapter 4?

6. How did Mary and her parents share parenting duties?

7. In Chapter 2, what type of supervision did Moore have?

8. Where did Wes go a few days after moving in with his grandparents in Chapter 2 and why did he plan to return?

9. In Chapter 4, what did Mary find in Moore's room, and what did she do with it?

10. In Chapter 3, what happened that made Mary decide to move?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Moore and Wes had decisions to make in Chapter 6. What decisions did they have to make? What did their decisions reveal about them?

Essay Topic 2

Genre is a way of classifying literature. What is the genre or genres of the novel and why?

Essay Topic 3

A legacy is something passed down in a family. In what way did Wes’s family provide a legacy for him? What type of legacy did they give him?

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