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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapters Eleven through Sixteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. McCall is fired from what kind of job after a confrontation with a supervisor?
(a) Lawn Service.
(b) Newspaper.
(c) Construction.
(d) Mechanic.

2. In Chapter 3, the reader discovers that McCall was jealous of his grandmother's affections while she worked as what for a Jewish family?
(a) Cook.
(b) Maid.
(c) Nurse.
(d) Nanny.

3. In Chapter 4, "pimping" is a kind of what?
(a) Sexual behavior.
(b) Snitching.
(c) Pickpocketing.
(d) Walk.

4. How many bedrooms does the new housing development home have?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

5. In Chapter 2, readers discover that many feel the new housing development for blacks was created not to provide equal housing but for what?
(a) Confine blacks to a specific neighborhood.
(b) Boost the political image of supporting politicians.
(c) Provide new homes for blacks.
(d) Use contaminated land no one else wanted to develop.

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides McCall's brothers, stepfather and mother, who else lives with the family when they move into their new housing development home?

2. What does McCall reveal to enjoy about school besides the reason he gives his friends for staying in school?

3. After losing his job, McCall is soon looking for opportunities to do what?

4. Even being on the honor roll and adults pulling for his academic success is not enough to pull McCall from his old life, so in Chapter 14 McCall describes going to his college classes ___ or not showing up at all.

5. In Chapter 11, McCall describes how he begins hustling people and then what?

(see the answer key)

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