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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While Rufus is still stalling in the store, a boy with red hair enters to do what?
(a) Take his time looking around, buy cigarettes.
(b) Take his time looking around, buy a soda.
(c) Look around, then challenge Rufus to a fight.
(d) Look around, then quickly exit.

2. Who does Rufus meet at the bus depot?
(a) Ed Travers.
(b) His mother.
(c) Baby Gibson.
(d) His father.

3. Rufus realizes the Moors must agree to meet Alex Robbins at the crafts room for what reason?
(a) Alex Robbins can cause trouble for them with the police.
(b) The Moors have to discuss the matter to see if enough of them can go.
(c) The official leader of the Moors is still in police custody.
(d) The Moors has to have a majority agree before they make a move.

4. After leaving his tire job, where does Rufus go and find Baby Gibson?
(a) Fat Boy's.
(b) Durango Dog.
(c) Happy Spot.
(d) Happy Days.

5. When Rufus asks his mother if she was really married to Ernie Brown, what is her response?
(a) For a few months, when she was 17.
(b) For a few months, when she was 18.
(c) For just over a year, when she turned 16.
(d) For a few months, when she was 16.

6. Rufus is wearing _________ as he leaves Pine Valley.
(a) His Boy Scout uniform.
(b) Comfortable semi-dress clothes.
(c) Jeans, a T-shirt, and sneakers.
(d) An ill-fitting exit outfit.

7. Who are Rufus' siblings who greet him?
(a) Janet, Cutler.
(b) Janet, Curtis.
(c) Janice, Curtis.
(d) Janet, Custer.

8. Rufus manages to hold his own against the boys' attacks during his initiation until what?
(a) Some of the boys begin to kick with steel toe boots.
(b) Some of the boys begin using brass knuckles.
(c) Some of the boys begin using clubs.
(d) The police arrive and break up the fight.

9. His first day out of Pine Valley, Rufus has a daydream about what?
(a) Running away to Africa.
(b) Learning to fly aircraft.
(c) Being in a gang fight.
(d) Meeting his former girlfriend.

10. Rufus initially borrows a knife he purposely drops, while Bantu does what?
(a) Slashes Rufus' arm with his knife.
(b) Slashes Leeroy's chest with his knife.
(c) Slashes Leeroy's arm with his knife.
(d) Slashes Rufus' face with his knife.

11. Late on the night of Rufus' Moors initiation, his parole officer calls the Group Service Council as he thinks what?
(a) This agency may be one of several options for Rufus.
(b) This agency's success is high and Rufus may benefit.
(c) This agency is Rufus's last hope.
(d) This agency has numerous employment possibilities for Rufus.

12. The other Moors members, who all had been beaten by Bantu when they joined the gang, now seem what?
(a) Pleased.
(b) Relieved.
(c) Afraid.
(d) Unemotional.

13. What does Rufus offer Idell a chance to do following Bantu's defeat?
(a) Replace Bantu as president of the Moors.
(b) Exit the gang without a beating.
(c) Join Bantu in the Gassers.
(d) Leave the Moors with only a beating.

14. What does Rufus agree to spray-paint on the front door of the Cathedral Heights police station?
(a) "Moors is best".
(b) "Moors is boss".
(c) "Moors is tops".
(d) "Moors rule".

15. The cop stopping the Gassers car remembers seeing one of the boys at the station several times using what name?
(a) Rufus Henry.
(b) Henry Jones.
(c) Robert Jones.
(d) Simon Jones.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is it Mr. Rubio informs Rufus his mother has moved to?

2. Where is the new home Rufus' parole officer takes him to?

3. In the fight among the Moors, author Frank Bonham relies upon a literary archetype - that is, the noble warrior who does what?

4. Once safely at home following the alley confrontation, Rufus hears his mother doing what?

5. This first time he has their car keys, Rufus has the Gassers get into their car and he leaves the keys for them where?

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