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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Benjie grab when he tries to run out of the bathroom on page 101?

2. What is on the table next to the reader and adviser's chair?

3. Where does Jimmy-Lee get a job?

4. What hours is the reader and adviser open?

5. What does Miss Dudley offer to fix Butler to eat?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Butler think he would act toward Benjie if he can get his hands on him?

2. What does Benjie say that he knows about using on page 88?

3. Who is Benjie's doctor in the hospital, and what does he have to take?

4. How do Rose and Butler dress and act when they go out?

5. What is it like when Benjie goes home?

6. Who is Mme. Snowson?

7. Why does Benjie's new bedspread in his room have bunnies on it?

8. What happens when Benjie steals Miss Dudley's toaster?

9. What has Benjie been feeling in the hospital?

10. What does Nigeria Greene like to think about Blacks?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Greene determined that he wanted to be a teacher. When and why did Green determine that he wanted to be a teacher? How did he have to compromise what he believed in to achieve his goal and become a teacher?

Essay Topic 2

Benjie decides to mainline after he is called a name. How does peer pressure cause Benjie to begin mainlining? Does he want to mainline? What is conveyed about the negative effects of peer pressure by his decision?

Essay Topic 3

Benjie does not think he is addicted to drugs. How easily does Benjie believe he can quit doing drugs? Is he facing reality thinking that he can quit easily?

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