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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 does Michael find when he goes to Francis's usual hang-out to find him?
(a) His father.
(b) About a dozen young men he does not recognize.
(c) Aisha.
(d) Samuel.

2. What does Francis tell Michael he has to work on in Part III?
(a) Exercising.
(b) Looking more sure of himself.
(c) Eating better.
(d) Doing better in school.

3. What is Michael's one memory of his and Francis's father?
(a) Their father begging for a job.
(b) Their father dancing with Francis.
(c) Their father angry and drunk.
(d) Their father in his casket.

4. Who does Aisha tell Michael he looks like with his haircut in Part III?
(a) Boy George.
(b) Michael Jordan.
(c) Sting.
(d) Gumby.

5. Where does Michael's father live?
(a) In Trinidad somewhere.
(b) In a run-down low-rise building.
(c) With his sister in the suburbs.
(d) In a homeless shelter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is on the shirts that all the bouncers are wearing at the audition?

2. What does Michael find when he gets home from work on one of the first nights Jelly is there in Part III?

3. What does Francis do right before Jelly's big audition?

4. What does Francis take Michael to buy in Part III?

5. What does Michael know about Anton?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who shows up in Michael's house in Part III after long years of no contact, and how does Michael feel about this person?

2. What does Jelly do as a show of good faith towards Michael in Part III?

3. Why does Francis spend so much time at Desirea's?

4. What does Michael remember about Jelly's "dress rehearsal"?

5. Why does Francis insist on speaking to the white-shirted promoter again after the end of the audition?

6. What does Francis seem to think about the middle-class white kids in the line at the DJing audition?

7. What feeling does Michael sense from Jelly in Part IV?

8. Why do Francis and Michael end up freezing and soaked in a bus shelter in Part IV?

9. What good memory does Michael have of his father from his childhood?

10. What really upsets Michael when he comes home to find a party at his house in Part III?

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