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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 position does Tracy want to have on her high school newspaper in "What Had Happened Was . . ."?

2. What grade was Tracy in when her father was arrested?

3. What color are the walls in the visiting room at Polunsky Prison?

4. In "Each One Teach One," how long did Calvin Pascal wait in Rikers for a trial for a $20 robbery charge?

5. In Tracy's May 10 letter to Innocence X, what percent of defendants does she say on death row are supposedly innocent?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Like Father, Like Son," what does Tracy's father say when she tells him what she wants to for a career?

2. How does Tasha feel about her dad and why?

3. What news does Tracy learn in "Each One Teach One"?

4. How were kids cruel after Tracy's father was arrested?

5. Why does Tracy write Innocence X?

6. Why did Tracy's family move to Texas?

7. What does Tracy remember doing with her father when she was Corinne's age?

8. How did Quincy help Tracy when her father was in jail?

9. Why do Tracy and her family have to wait to see James in "Like Father, Like Son"?

10. In "The Fast and the Furious," why do the police come to the Beaumont's house?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Beaumonts are under a great deal of stress. What stress are the Beaumonts under? What is revealed about coping strategies through the way that they handle the stressors in their lives?

Essay Topic 2

Conflicts between characters are often caused by a problem. What are some conflicts that occur in the novel? Are the conflicts in the book mostly man vs. man, man vs. nature, or man vs. self? Are they internal or external conflicts?

Essay Topic 3

Idioms are words that have a figurative, rather than a literal meaning. How does the author use idioms in the book? Why are the idioms sometimes difficult to understand? Why do the idioms often require research to understand their meaning?

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