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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 briefly turns to selling drugs but stops, admitting in Chapter 15 that besides the pitfalls McCall can't track what well enough to make money?
(a) The money.
(b) The product.
(c) The people.
(d) The cops.

2. According to Chapter 4, how many blocks is the walk to the black junior high school near McCall's home in the new black housing development?
(a) 2.
(b) 8.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

3. As the new kid in the black junior high school, McCall is introduced to the term "getting clean" which means what?
(a) Telling the truth.
(b) Dressing in the coolest fads.
(c) Letting go of false friends.
(d) Taking a bath.

4. In Part I of the book, McCall reveals that the reason he starts to steal is not for anything he needs but rather for what?
(a) To fit in.
(b) Because his friends did it.
(c) A rite of passage.
(d) Because his friends wanted him to do it.

5. In Chapter 14, McCall considers that he got a light sentence for shooting a man because the man's life was worth so little and because McCall did so well in what?
(a) First year of college.
(b) Raising his son.
(c) Keeping a job.
(d) Helping his parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to McCall in Chapter 9, after a boy is killed, who arrives in town with plans for war?

2. What is McCall doing in Chapter 15 while his relationships with family deteriorate and McCall becomes more paranoid?

3. Turning to armed robbery in Chapter 11, McCall takes several things from his victims, except what?

4. In Chapter 12, McCall looks at what movie/show and how it affects young black men?

5. McCall's stepfather takes in a child from his previous marriage who is older than McCall; what is this child's name?

(see the answer key)

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