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

2. How old is Jamila when she visits Robby in prison?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Seven.
(d) One.

3. What was the Homewood Avenue district?
(a) A center for gang violence.
(b) A center for drugs and prostitution.
(c) A shipping port.
(d) A coal mining ghetto.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What shade of black does John say he and his siblings are?

2. How did John's mother know that Robby was getting high?

3. John says that the prisoners are like him except for what?

4. What does John feel in looking at the prisoners?

5. What does John say about entering and leaving the prison?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does John say about his wife and daughter?

2. Why does John say it might have been a mistake to bring Robby home with him?

3. What happened after Robby's arrest?

4. In what way is John on the run as much as Robby is?

5. What happened to Robby that he was wanted by the police?

6. Describe Robby's entrance into drugs and crime.

7. Who travels to the prison to visit Robby?

8. What kind of blackness was expected of John in college?

9. Where does John say Robby has a place in Jamila's life?

10. How does Robby characterize himself as a young man?

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