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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 leader of the Moors is under arrest, and others are frequently.
(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 Moors is a gang with some members in prison.

2. The carload of Gassers youths all have red hair as a result of what?
(a) Straightening it with lye and gasoline.
(b) All being brothers or first cousins.
(c) Straightening it with gasoline.
(d) Straightening it with lye.

3. Bonham shows that an unsafe environment can lead teens into gang violence as they group together for what purpose?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Protection.
(c) Feeling "cool".
(d) Camaraderie.

4. It is noted that it is safer for Rufus to keep from using a knife in the confrontation from what standpoint?
(a) Legal.
(b) Physical.
(c) Ethical.
(d) Moral.

5. While holding the broken bottle in defense, what does Rufus say he is demanding the Gassers' car keys for?
(a) Keeping them so they cannot chase him.
(b) Stealing their car.
(c) Throwing them in the sewer.
(d) Locking them in the car's trunk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rufus ask the president of Baby's gang for?

2. How do the gang members reflect their vote for Rufus to join the Moors?

3. His first day out of Pine Valley, Rufus has a daydream about what?

4. After settling alone in his room, Rufus makes sure his Ernie Brown scrapbook is where?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapters 4-6, how is it that author Frank Bonham focuses upon crafting Rufus Henry's character?

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

4. 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?

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

6. Later on the evening that Rufus Henry accepts membership into the Moors gang, why is it that Ed Travers makes a call on Rufus' behalf?

7. When Rufus Henry offers to purchase groceries using the money he has been given upon leaving Pine Valley, what is his mother's response?

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

9. How is it that Rufus Henry displays his practical side when initially encountering the Gassers gang?

10. Why is Rufus Henry nervous about going to the Durango Housing Project?

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