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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. 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 16.
(b) For a few months, when she was 18.
(c) For a few months, when she was 17.
(d) For just over a year, when she turned 16.

2. What does Rufus' mother tell him took place regarding her marriage to Ernie Brown?
(a) It lasts a few months, his parents have it annulled, he goes to college.
(b) It lasts nearly a year, his parents have it annulled, he goes to college.
(c) His parents have it annulled after a few weeks, he goes to college.
(d) It lasts only 2 weeks, his parents have it annulled, he goes to college.

3. What is Sergeant Starkey's response when Alex Robbins first stops by the police station and tells him his role is to break up the Moors?
(a) The Moors is a gang with some members in prison.
(b) A Moors member is in custody for narcotics possession.
(c) The Moors had an initiation for a new member the previous night.
(d) The leader of the Moors is under arrest, and others are frequently.

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

5. Where does the knife fighting among the Moors take place?
(a) Fat Boy's.
(b) Outside Rufus' house.
(c) The Happy Spot.
(d) In an alley several blocks from the Happy Spot.

Short Answer Questions

1. Aware the Gassers will be looking for him after the broken glass event, Rufus decides he needs to find Baby Gibson for what reason?

2. Late on the night of Rufus' Moors initiation, his parole officer calls the Group Service Council as he thinks what?

3. What is the name of the team Ernie Brown is being traded to in Coast City?

4. Responding to Alex Robbins' suggestion that the Moors elect a new president, Rufus nominates which members as president and secretary respectively?

5. Who tells Bantu the Moors have a new president?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Rufus Henry remain safe when the members of the Gassers gang surround him in the alley?

2. What transpires when Rufus Henry initially meets up with the other Moors members at the crafts room at the Walnut Street playground to meet Alex Robbins?

3. Once safe at home following his confrontation with the Gassers in the alley, what is his mother's response when Rufus Henry asks her about her first marriage?

4. In the opening chapters, what type of picture does author Frank Bonham paint of Rufus Henry's new environment in the Durango Housing Project?

5. What transpires when Bantu Motley initially leaves jail and meets up with Moors members at the Happy Spot?

6. In the weekly conversation that social worker Mr. Rubio has with Rufus Henry where they discuss his Ernie Brown scrapbook, what news does he relay to Rufus?

7. What Is Rufus Henry's recollection of his mother first telling him about her marriage to Ernie Brown?

8. What procedure do the Moors members follow in allowing Rufus Henry into their gang?

9. How is it that Rufus Henry is let into the Moors gang after the president of the gang initially says no to his request?

10. How is it that Rufus Henry becomes leader of the Moors?

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