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

2. What does Jim think a requirement seems to be for attending Communist Party meetings?
(a) Being ugly.
(b) Being against the war.
(c) Being young.
(d) Being smart.

3. Where do Willie and Jim leave their pipe after their night of smoking and drinking?
(a) In an abandoned car.
(b) They bury it in a hole.
(c) Under some rocks and leaves.
(d) In Willie's attic.

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

5. Willie goes to the beach to wash what out of his hair?
(a) Ketchup.
(b) Pizza.
(c) Blood.
(d) Soda.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jim check the almanac for when he gets home from school?

2. How does Jim describe the guys in his new neighborhood?

3. Where does Jim hide while Mr. Bluster looks for students cutting class?

4. Where does Jim have a summer job?

5. What do Jim and Ronnie wear to Alexander's department store?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the passersby responding to Freddie C., who is exposing himself, in the Bronx?

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

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

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

5. How does Jim end up playing on a new team at the summer league championship game?

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

7. What event makes Jim wonder where his life is heading?

8. Why does Jim suspect his family receives the Catholic News?

9. Why is Jimmy Mancole behaving strangely, after he and Jim knock on every door and check every street corner looking for drugs?

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

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