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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 is Jim required to do at school once a month?

2. Who applauds for Jim after he jumps into the Harlem River?

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

4. Where does Jim have a summer job?

5. Who gets upset when Jim answers questions in class with, "Yah," instead of, "Yes, sir?"

Short Essay Questions

1. In the winter of 1964, how does Jim try to prove he is not hooked onmarijuana?

2. Why does a woman on the bus in Long Beach think Jim is "a commie"?

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why does Jim feel he has to watch himself in the woods?

9. Why does Jim think the little girl he meets might drop out of her class?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do priests and brothers show their power at Jim's school? How do the students interact with them?

Essay Topic 2

How do Jim and his friends show respect for each other? Give an example from the text of one person reaching out to help another.

Essay Topic 3

How do adults positively influence the "characters" in the book? How do they negatively affect them?

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