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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 Jim bring on the train uptown to break his boredom?
(a) A sports magazine.
(b) A deck of cards.
(c) A newspaper.
(d) A novel.

2. What do Jim and Ronnie wear to Alexander's department store?
(a) Top hats.
(b) Baggy old coats.
(c) Baseball uniforms.
(d) School uniforms.

3. In the spring of 1964, where does Jim spend summer nights alone?
(a) In the woods.
(b) Under a bridge.
(c) On his roof.
(d) At headquarters.

4. Where does Jim's basketball team go for the play-off series?
(a) Long Beach.
(b) Brooklyn.
(c) The lower east side.
(d) Harlem.

5. How old does Jim say his dead friend looks?
(a) 80.
(b) 60.
(c) 16.
(d) 35.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jim's motivation for getting along with his cousin's friends in Manhattan?

2. What does Rudy the foreman do after he chases Jim to the ramp at Yankee Stadium?

3. Why does a chorus of people laugh at Jim on a previous train ride?

4. Where does Jim to to attend a Communist Party meeting with Bunty?

5. Where does Jim take his blind date, Melody?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Lefty leave his players in the Bronx?

2. Why does Jim dread returning to a Catholic school?

3. Why does Jim run out of the theater during the movie?

4. Why do Jim and some of his teammates draw pills out of a hat before the game at Horace Mann?

5. How does Jim feel at the end of the diary?

6. How do the students at Jim's school support the poor and hungry blacks in the south?

7. What does Jim say is the advantage of going to a private school?

8. Why does Jim say he never liked Bobo from the old Boys' Club bunch?

9. How does Jim react to seeing his friend Bobby Sachs's dead body?

10. Describe the plan Jim's friends execute to deter cops from driving on the paths at the park.

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