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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. Who gets beat in the winter of 1964 for cheating on a religion quiz?
(a) Mikey Benavisti.
(b) Ronnie.
(c) Jim.
(d) Vinnie.

2. Who blows his cool in the locker room at half time in the game against Horace Mann?
(a) Jim.
(b) Marc.
(c) Coach Doolittle.
(d) Lang.

3. Why does Jim have trouble communicating to one of the police officers who stop him in the park?
(a) Steve doesn't speak English very well.
(b) Jim is trying to talk to someone else at the same time.
(c) There is too much noise for them to hear each other.
(d) Jim is stoned.

4. What does Jim do after History classes on his first day of school?
(a) He smokes in the locker room.
(b) He watches the football team work out.
(c) He writes in his diary.
(d) He leaves school.

5. What does Jim say Melody looks like?
(a) A model.
(b) A movie star.
(c) A bad dream.
(d) An antique doll.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old is Jim, when the story begins?

3. What do Jim and friends call the huge rock they jump off of in the Bronx?

4. Where do Willie and Jim leave their pipe after their night of smoking and drinking?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jim say the train toward 137th St. suddenly smells like a cattle car?

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

3. Why does Jim predict a gang war soon?

4. Why does Jim say he and his friends are not really breaking into the park to steal basketballs?

5. Why isn't Jim going to tell anyone he was in a baby powder commercial?

6. Why does Jim stop writing in the winter of 1964?

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

8. According to Jim, how is the game "chickie" played?

9. Why doesn't Ju-Ju think Jim can pass as his son?

10. Why does Jim get out of saying confession in the winter of 1964?

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