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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. What does John say Jamila remembers about Robby?
(a) That he looks like Muhammad Ali.
(b) That he eats apples.
(c) That he dances.
(d) That he sings show tunes.

2. Who does Jamila say Robby looks like?
(a) Louis Armstrong.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Stevie Wonder.
(d) Wilt chamberlain.

3. What does John say freedom is related to?
(a) Running.
(b) Having work.
(c) Having good friends.
(d) Owning land.

4. How does John say the prisoners view children?
(a) As religious objects.
(b) As bright distractions.
(c) As sexual objects.
(d) As objects of exchange.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Jamila tell her friends about Robby?

2. What does Garth seem to have died of?

3. How many years separate John and Robby?

4. Where do John and Jamila have to drive through on the way to the penitentiary?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does John say Robby changed his mother?

4. How does John say he and his family act when they get to the penitentiary?

5. Who is Garth, and what was his importance in Robby's life?

6. How are Jamila and Robby related in John's mind?

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

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

9. How does John characterize the drive to the penitentiary?

10. Describe the geography of "Brothers and Keepers".

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