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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 check the almanac for when he gets home from school?
(a) Any record of fits tossed in one class of thirty people in one half a school day.
(b) When the next full moon will be.
(c) A horoscope that might indicate how his basketball season will go.
(d) Strange weather patterns over New York City.

2. Who does Jim's team play in the first game of the season?
(a) St. Mary's.
(b) St. Hilda's.
(c) St. Patrick's.
(d) St. Luke's.

3. Where does Jim go after the game against Horace Mann?
(a) Home.
(b) To the woods.
(c) Headquarters.
(d) To a bar.

4. Who stops Jim in the bushes at Central Park?
(a) Mr. Doolittle.
(b) A tourist asking for directions.
(c) The school principal.
(d) Two horse-patrol cops.

5. How does Chris explain Willie's injury to the police officer who stops them?
(a) He says they found him that way.
(b) He says he fell down some stairs.
(c) He says it was a sledding accident.
(d) He says he was attacked by a dog.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which friend does not manage to get a seat on the train?

2. What does Jim say the "old cigar chomping Garden regulars" love to see?

3. What does Jim's mother say when he calls her from Tom Miggrello's party?

4. Who does Jim talk to about what he learns at the Communist Party meeting?

5. What do Jim and his team want to do after their victory at Riverdale?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Jim banned for the year from the dorm at NYU?

2. What theory about paying for food do Jim and his friends share while stoned?

3. Why do the junkies in the tavern start ordering beer after the cops arrive?

4. What prank does Mancole play on a neighbor?

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

6. Why does Jim call his abusive teacher "the fine Christian Brother"?

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

8. Why does Jim believe drug pushers always have a supply no matter how many busts are made?

9. Why does Jim feel uneasy walking through Harlem with his friends?

10. Why doesn't Jim like walking to gym class in Central Park?

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