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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jack's best memory of attending OMLC High School?
(a) Helping to paint the school.
(b) When he beat Willie in a one-on-one game of basketball.
(c) When Hawk jumped to his rescue and beat up Kam.
(d) When Willie helped with an embarrassing problem in the bathroom.

2. When Lisa asks Willie to find his center, where is it?
(a) Just left and below his navel.
(b) He is unable to find it.
(c) Just above his navel.
(d) To the right and far above his navel.

3. What do Willie and the others at OMLC do on weekends during the first two months of school?
(a) They rebuild the neighborhood playground.
(b) They play basketball in the park.
(c) They repair the windows in the school.
(d) They paint the school building.

4. How does Willie get past Kam when the Jo Boys come back to vandalize the school again in Chapter 19?
(a) Willie pulls the fire alarm and slips past him while he is distracted.
(b) He hits him twice with his cane, once in the crotch and then on his collarbone.
(c) Kam leaves because the smoke is too overwhelming.
(d) Willie rushes past him in the smoke.

5. What is the cause of Lacey's son's brain damage?
(a) He was stuck in the birth canal too long during labor.
(b) He was hurt in an accident when Lacey was driving drunk and crashed the car.
(c) He lost oxygen when he was a baby because Lacey left him locked in a hot car.
(d) Lacey beat him nearly to death.

6. Why does Andre refuse to let Willie leave the basketball court?
(a) He says that he should never leave the court on a miss.
(b) He wants him to finish the game that they are playing.
(c) He sees some other kids and wants Willie to introduce himself.
(d) He is afraid that Willie is frustrated and wants him to talk about it.

7. What has Willie learned from Lisa about dancing?
(a) Move from the center, and if the music is too fast, cut the beat in half.
(b) Men do not have to be good dancers.
(c) Swaying from side to side is a good substitute for real dancing.
(d) It does not matter how you move, only that you move.

8. How are Willie and Lacey able to see Lacey's son?
(a) They sign in at the visitor's desk and claim to be distant relatives.
(b) They climb over the hospital fence and peek in the window.
(c) They get special permission from the judge.
(d) They sneak through the service entrance.

9. Who keeps calling Lacey's house and getting him upset?
(a) The police.
(b) His ex-wife.
(c) A mafia boss.
(d) His accountant.

10. Why is the school's fire alarm essentially useless?
(a) When Willie pulls it, nothing happens.
(b) The alarm is so old that Willie is not even sure that it works.
(c) The fire has already burned through its connection to the emergency dispatch.
(d) The fire alarm has no connection to the fire department and can only be heard within the school.

11. What inspires Lacey to reveal the secret about his son to Willie?
(a) Willie finally asks Lacey about his ex-wife's angry phone calls.
(b) He comes home drunk and sees that his ex-wife has called again.
(c) Willie threatens to leave, so Lacey tries to explain why he wants Willie to stay.
(d) He comes home to find Willie in tears and wants to comfort him.

12. According to Angel, how do girls learn to be prostitutes?
(a) They grow up thinking that sex is the only way they can get anything.
(b) They feel like they have no other skills.
(c) They become prostitutes when they realize they have no other options.
(d) They grow up without anyone to care about them.

13. What phrase does Willie say is written across the faces of the homeless people in the bus terminal?
(a) "Abandon Hope."
(b) "Go Away."
(c) "Lost Cause."
(d) "Hopeless."

14. Why is Angel not grateful when Willie comes to her rescue?
(a) She wants to know why he did not interfere sooner.
(b) She knows that Lacey will come after both her and Willie when he wakes up.
(c) She does not like Willie and does not want to "owe" him anything.
(d) She is too frightened to realize that he has helped her.

15. Why do the Jo Boys attack Willie?
(a) They think that Willie has called the police.
(b) He looks like someone who owes them money.
(c) They enjoy hurting other people, especially those who are weak.
(d) Willie tries to hide some of his money when they rob him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Willie finally come out of the downstairs room after he has been waiting for Hawk and Kato to arrive?

2. What does Willie like about Kato?

3. What does OMLC stand for?

4. For what does Lisa use the one hundred and forty dollars that Willie gets from Lacey?

5. What had prevented Hawk from meeting Willie at school as they had planned on the night of the fire?

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