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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 Robby say about John's first draft?
(a) He says that it's not his story.
(b) He says that something is missing.
(c) He loves it.
(d) He says that it's all wrong.

2. What does John say happens to Robby when his appeals are turned down?
(a) He loses motivation to keep taking classes.
(b) He sinks into depression and stops working.
(c) He starts to do advocacy work.
(d) He becomes angry and combative.

3. How does Robby say he tests the heroin before buying it?
(a) He uses a spectrograph.
(b) He uses chemical analysis.
(c) He shoots it himself.
(d) He gets a comrade to shoot it.

4. How long was it before Mike met up with Robby and Cecil?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Six weeks.
(c) A month.
(d) Two months.

5. What advice did Cecil get when he called his mother?
(a) To come back to Pittsburgh.
(b) To go to California.
(c) To go to Canada.
(d) To turn himself in Indiana.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Robby plan to go, after Chicago?

2. Who shot Stavros that he went down?

3. What is Robby sick with after Chicago?

4. Who is Geraldine?

5. How does Robby characterize Stavros?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Robby and his crew pull off the robbery?

2. What did Robby and Michael Dukes and Cecil Rice do sloppily while they were getting away?

3. Who was Red Murphy?

4. What is it about the prison workers that makes John mad?

5. How is John's 1982 visit unusual?

6. Describe Robby's meeting with Johnny-Boy.

7. How does John describe Robby's drug deal in Detroit?

8. How did the botched job feel wrong from the start, according to Robby?

9. How does John characterize his revision to Robby's story.

10. What does Robby say was his impulse after the robbery?

(see the answer keys)

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