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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 old was Wes in Chapter 7?

2. In Chapter 8, what was Moore eating before he was arrested?

3. How many teenagers came to get Wes out of bed in Chapter 5?

4. In 2000 how many murders did Balimtore City average a year?

5. Where did Moore leave two bags of crack cocaine for a man in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. At the end of Chapter 7, how did Moore go from hope to despair?

4. In Chapter 8, where had Wes traveled abroad, and where did he go for a semester of college?

5. Why was Moore arrested in Chapter 5?

6. In Chapter 7, what was wrong with Moore's girlfriend Cheryl?

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

8. Why did Wes decide to apply to attend Johns Hopkins?

9. What happened when Wes would not get out of bed his first morning at the military academy?

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

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

Wes and Moore had siblings. Were the relationships that Wes and Moore had with their siblings positive or negative?

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