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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did John's mother know that Robby was getting high?
(a) She heard in the trial.
(b) She found money missing from her purse, and a syringe.
(c) She heard from the neighbors.
(d) She caught him in the act of shooting up.

2. What bothered John most about arguing with the white student?
(a) The white kid knew more than he did.
(b) The white kid threw his blackness in his face.
(c) Nothing John said could convince the kid he was right.
(d) It was clear that it didn't matter who was most knowledgeable.

3. How many siblings doe John have?
(a) Six.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

4. What does John say he sees in himself by looking at the prisoners?
(a) Evil.
(b) Shame.
(c) Guilt.
(d) Lust.

5. Why does Jamila think Robby should be out of prison?
(a) Because he was wrongly imprisoned.
(b) Because he eats apples.
(c) Because he wants to be.
(d) Because he is her uncle.

6. What does John say Jamila is obsessed with?
(a) Prisons.
(b) Highways.
(c) Trains.
(d) Graveyards.

7. What does John say he argued about in college?
(a) Blues music.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Basketball players.
(d) Modern art.

8. How does John characterize Western State Penitentiary?
(a) A gleaming modern prison.
(b) A relatively nice prison.
(c) A decrepit institution.
(d) An imposing nineteenth-century prison.

9. What does Garth seem to have died of?
(a) AIDS.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Stabbing.
(d) Poisoning.

10. What does John say he does not like about the visit?
(a) That they are more free than Robby even while they are there.
(b) The guards' indifference to them.
(c) The bureaucratic hassles.
(d) That it seems normal to visit a relative in prison.

11. What does John say it is dangerous to drive through the Homewood Avenue district?
(a) Winding streets.
(b) Crime.
(c) Potholes.
(d) Gun violence.

12. What can't a prisoner do, no matter what?
(a) Breathe free.
(b) Speak freely.
(c) Kill time.
(d) Run.

13. What is the Homewood Avenue neighborhood?
(a) An industrial district.
(b) A slum.
(c) A shopping district.
(d) A subdevelopment.

14. How does John characterize Robby's birthday?
(a) A day of solidarity.
(b) A day of mourning.
(c) A day of celebration.
(d) A day of forgetting.

15. Why doesn't Jamila tell her friends about Robby?
(a) They have their own problems in their families.
(b) They wouldn't understand.
(c) They would torment her.
(d) They would want to go visit him.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Jamila when she visits Robby in prison?

2. How does John say the guests are treated while they're at the prison?

3. Who were Michael Dukes and Cecil Rice?

4. What does John notice about the prisoners?

5. What motivated Robby to kill the fence?

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