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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 America is Gerald from?

2. Who does Piri hear is in hospital?

3. What does Piri's mother tell Piri before he leaves?

4. What does Piri say he avoids in Comstock State Prison?

5. What does the gang have to buy in this section?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the fight between Piri and his father in Section 7.

2. Describe Piri's routine at Sing Sing prison?

3. What tragedy occurs when Piri returns to New York?

4. Why does Rocky want to fight with Piri?

5. What is Piri's sentence for shooting the policeman and for the robbery?

6. Describe Jose and James' physical appearance.

7. What does Piri think the girl who rubbed against him on the train said to her friends?

8. How does Piri become addicted to heroin?

9. How do Brew and Piri ensure a job for themselves on a ship?

10. What does Piri's father tell him in at breakfast in Section 5?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Examine Piri's time in prison.

1) What concessions did Piri have to make in prison to survive?

2) How did prison change Piri?

3) What kind of person do the students think Piri would have become if he had not gone to prison?

Essay Topic 3

Outline Piri's prison routine How do the students think this routine benefited Piri? How did Piri make the most of his days?

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