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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 meets Francis, Michael and Ruth at a house in Trinidad in a memory from Michael's youth?
(a) Ruth's siter.
(b) Ruth's aunt.
(c) Ruth's mother.
(d) Ruth's brother.

2. What does the man in the white shirt tell Francis after he is badly beaten by the bouncers?
(a) To go away and not come back or he will have them all arrested.
(b) That he will call an ambulance for Francis.
(c) That this is what happens to people with no talent.
(d) That there is no way kids like them, from their neighborhood, will ever make it in the music industry.

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

4. What is on the shirts that all the bouncers are wearing at the audition?
(a) Hardy.
(b) The Bone.
(c) Live Wait.
(d) Regal Sport.

5. Who gets into a verbal altercation with the police at Desirea's in Part IV?
(a) Dru.
(b) Francis.
(c) Aisha.
(d) Raj.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What incident does Michael witness Anton experiencing before Anton's death?

4. What does Michael remember Aisha's father doing once in front of him and Francis that was a little awkward but also a bit beautiful?

5. What does Francis do to Scatter that earns Francis legendary status?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Francis do when Scatter pulls his knife on Michael?

2. What happens when the cops show up at Desirea's in Part IV?

3. How does Anton act in the aftermath of his being badly beaten, which Michael recalls in Part III?

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

5. How does Jelly's audition go?

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

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

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

9. What happens when Francis and Michael go to try to find their estranged father in Part III?

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

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