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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 subject did Lieutenant Colonel Murnane teach Wes?

2. When were the children born that Moore had with Alicia?

3. In Chapter 5, how much taller was Wes than his mother?

4. How many times did Wes run away from military school in four days?

5. In Chapter 5, how long after Moore and Alicia met was she pregnant?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 6, what breaks did Moore get for the incident in which he shot at Ray?

2. In Chapter 5, why did Tony think it was amusing when Moore got his girlfriend Alicia pregnant?

3. How did Wes feel when he jumped out of a plane in Chapter 7?

4. What did Moore say about expectations in Part 3?

5. How many children did Moore have in Chapter 7, how old were they, and who were their mothers?

6. How did Wes's mother get the money for his first year at the military academy?

7. What was ironic about Wes's position in Chapter 6?

8. In Chapter 5, what happened when Wes was given a map to the train station?

9. As Woody graduated from high school in 1994, what did he remember about his classmates who did not graduate?

10. What family did Prothero leave behind?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

There were many factors that shaped the men that Wes and Moore became. What were some factors that shaped the men’s lives? How did their environments influence the type of men they became?

Essay Topic 3

Both Wes and Moore were given second chances. What second chances did they both receive? Did they take advantage of the chances they were given?

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