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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. What does Nigeria Greene teach?
(a) 9th grade.
(b) 7th grade.
(c) 6th grade.
(d) 8th grade.

2. In Rose's apartment building, what do they say about the father of a young girl's baby?
(a) He is in the service.
(b) He's in college.
(c) He died in a car accident.
(d) He died in a boating accident.

3. Where does Butler wish they could send Benjie?
(a) Military school.
(b) Boarding school.
(c) Drug rehab.
(d) A farm in the South.

4. On page 49, which annual ball does the La Paloma Femme de la Jours hold?
(a) 7th.
(b) 10th.
(c) 9th.
(d) 8th.

5. How many bags does Walter have to hustle in order to pay the cops five singles?
(a) 5.
(b) 10.
(c) 20.
(d) 15.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gave Benjie his first joint of pot?

2. What is the name of the woman who was beat up and robbed after she left a night meeting of the Scholarship Fund Society?

3. What role did Nigeria's father play in their church?

4. At what hotel do the La Paloma Femme de la Jours hold their ball, fashion show, and champagne sip?

5. What time of day did Benjie and his mother used to go buy a Sunday newspaper?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Nigeria do his lessons in school and why?

2. What was Nigeria's goal in getting through school?

3. What does Benjie's stepfather say about opportunity?

4. What does Mrs. Ransom Bell say about getting old?

5. What does Benjie say about being a child?

6. What does Nigeria say about Bernard Cohen's teaching style?

7. How did Rose meet Butler?

8. Why does Bernard Cohen consider quitting teaching or transferring to another school?

9. What did Butler do for a living, and why did he change jobs?

10. Why did Rose not go to a ball game with Butler and Benjie?

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