Create an evaluative question that can be answered by this excerpt from Little Brother: He slammed his hand down on the desk and
then pointed his finger at me. "The *problem*, Mr. Yallow, is that you've been engaged in criminal conspiracy (a secret plan) to subvert (ruin, break) this school's security system, and you have supplied security countermeasures (ways around the system) to your fellow students. You know that we expelled Graciella Uriarte last week for using one of your devices." Uriarte had gotten a bad rap. She'd bought a radio-jammer from a head-shop near the 16th Street BART station and it had set off the countermeasures in the school hallway. Not my doing, but I felt for her.
There are different evaluative questions that we can ask to that excerpt. But, one crucial point must bind these questions. The questions have to be personal. One example could be:
According to the excerpt, do you think Mr. Yallow has to be held responsible for the actions of Graciella?
While the other answers are somewhat correct, they contribute to the fears that Colin's been grappling with since birth. It isn't until he decides he's not an invalid or disabled that he realizes it was all in his head.
