The Basketball Diaries | Short Answer Test Questions

Short Answer Questions

Directions: Answer each question with the appropriate short response.

Short Answer Questions - Part 1

1. How old is Jim, when the story begins?

2. How does Jim play on a league out of his age range?

3. Who does Jim go to Staten Island with?

4. What does Jim say his eyes feel like when sniffing cleaning fluid?

5. In the fall of 1963, who is the neighbor taken away for mental health problems?

6. What specialty does Jim say crooks on the Lower East Side have in common?

7. What does the newspaper call Jim and his friends?

8. Who stands up for Pedro about the teasing from Herbie about his parents?

9. Why do Jim and his friends laugh during the giant fire on Second Ave.?

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