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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of Piri's body did Rocky injure?

2. Why does Piri not fight Waneko as hard as he could?

3. Who unzips Piri's pants in this chapter?

4. What earns Piri applause on the baseball field?

5. What does Piri's father offer to buy him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What problems does Piri have at school in the second section?

2. Why does Piri think his father does not like him as much as his other children?

3. How do Marcia and her friends react to Piri's asking Marcia to dance?

4. Describe Piri's relationship with Betty.

5. How does racism bother Piri in the fourth section?

6. Describe Piri's time with the baseball team at his new school.

7. What happens when Piri goes for a job interview in Section 4?

8. Describe the fight between Piri and Rocky in the opening section.

9. How does Piri get rid of the Jolly Roger gang members who chase him home?

10. How does Piri react to the news that his father is having an affair?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What did Piri experience in Harlem and how did those experiences shape his character? Would Piri have entered a life of crime if he had grown up in another area of the country?

Essay Topic 2

What major events had a profound affect on Piri's life? How did they change him?

Essay Topic 3

Examine racism in the South.

1) What were the differences between race relations in the South to race relations in the North in the Fifties?

2) In what way does Piri not understand the Southern culture and what people like Brew have been through?

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