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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Richard work the following summer?
(a) A sawmill
(b) A bomb factory
(c) A watermill
(d) A grocery store

2. Who does Richard have to write to for help?
(a) Maggie
(b) Uncle Tom
(c) His father
(d) His grandma

3. What does Granny think Richard has said?
(a) He has found God
(b) He has seen an angel
(c) He has seen a naked woman
(d) He believes in the devil

4. What is the name of Granny's religion?
(a) Seventh-Day Adventist
(b) Buddhism
(c) Jehova Witness
(d) Baptist

5. Why did the whites kill the black boy?
(a) He spoke out of turn to his boss
(b) He walked into a white cafe
(c) He was consorting with a white prostitute
(d) He stole money

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following do the gangs not use as weapons?

2. What does Richard borrow from the schoolteacher's room?

3. Where is Richard making a delivery to when a policeman stops him?

4. What does Richard do in the hotel?

5. What kind of weapon does Richard hide under his pillow?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Richard first find his love for books?

2. What happens when Richard gets a flat tire on his bicycle?

3. How does Richard's mother punish him for burning down the house?

4. How does Richard respond when his principal demands that he reads his speech for graduation?

5. Why does Richard hang the kitten?

6. Why does Richard dislike his job with the white family?

7. What happens when Richard makes a delivery to a white neighborhood in Chapter 9?

8. What does Richard do after he has read his speech at graduation?

9. What does Richard do to raise money to move away from the South?

10. Why does Richard develop a bitter association between his father and hunger?

(see the answer keys)

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