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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. 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 had an initiation for a new member the previous night.
(b) A Moors member is in custody for narcotics possession.
(c) The leader of the Moors is under arrest, and others are frequently.
(d) The Moors is a gang with some members in prison.

2. Who convinces the other Moors members to allow him to speak as their representative to Alex Robbins?
(a) Whitey James.
(b) Richard Motley.
(c) Baby Gibson.
(d) Rufus.

3. Rufus recognizes he is moving dangerously fast in his plan to make a truce with other gangs, but reminds himself of what?
(a) Progress requires that he take some risk.
(b) He cannot back down now that he has proposed his plan.
(c) He needs to move quickly to stay ahead of the Gassers.
(d) Ernie Brown moves just as fast on the football field.

4. The grocery owner tells Rufus to do what as he stalls?
(a) Take his time.
(b) Listen to the ball game on the radio.
(c) Watch out for "Gassers" kids lurking outside.
(d) Hurry up.

5. After settling alone in his room, Rufus makes sure his Ernie Brown scrapbook is where?
(a) Under his bed.
(b) On his top closet shelf.
(c) On the floor under his dresser beneath the bottom drawer.
(d) Between the mattress and the bedspring.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rufus tell his mother he really wants to become?

2. Rufus is wearing _________ as he leaves Pine Valley.

3. Concluding his fight with Bantu, Rufus calls for a Moors meeting to be held when?

4. Alex Robbins learns at the station that the members of the Moors range from age 15 to how old?

5. As soon as Rufus makes his pledge and shakes Bantu's hand, what transpires next?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Rufus Henry deal with Idell subsequent to Rufus' fight with Bantu Motley?

2. How does the knife fight between Bantu Motley and Rufus Henry proceed?

3. What does Rufus Henry do when Alex Robbins finds the Moors boys for the first time?

4. What happens when Rufus Henry learns that Ernie Brown will soon join the Marauders?

5. At the beginning of Durango Street, what is it Rufus Henry's parole officer, Ed Travers, initially ensures?

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

7. 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?

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

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

10. En route to the store, what quickly happens when Rufus Henry and his sister encounter a carload of gang members?

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