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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapters Eleven through Sixteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 5, McCall is sent into the juvenile court system after he is caught doing what with his friends?
(a) Skipping school.
(b) Pickpocketing.
(c) Shoplifting.
(d) Vandalizing school property.

2. What is the name of the boy shot in McCall's front yard?
(a) Bimbo.
(b) Prairie Dog.
(c) Horace.
(d) Dwight.

3. McCall vows to do what he can to help but has no idea what to do when his girlfriend tells him what?
(a) She is sick.
(b) She is pregnant.
(c) She wants an abortion.
(d) Her parents are divorcing.

4. According to McCall in Chapter 13, who is liked by his parents for keeping him off the streets?
(a) His best friend.
(b) Billy.
(c) Elisabeth.
(d) Denise.

5. Besides McCall's brothers, stepfather and mother, who else lives with the family when they move into their new housing development home?
(a) Bampoose.
(b) Debbie.
(c) Liz.
(d) J.L.

Short Answer Questions

1. After July 19, 1973, McCall is soon accepted into how many colleges?

2. According to Chapter 4, how many blocks is the walk to the black junior high school near McCall's home in the new black housing development?

3. As the new kid in the black junior high school, McCall is introduced to the term "getting clean" which means what?

4. McCall briefly turns to selling drugs but stops, admitting in Chapter 15 that besides the pitfalls McCall can't track what well enough to make money?

5. In Chapter 11, McCall describes how he begins hustling people and then what?

(see the answer key)

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