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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. 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) Raising his son.
(b) Keeping a job.
(c) Helping his parents.
(d) First year of college.

2. In the neighborhood junior high school, McCall learns about putting down others as a competitive conversation called what?
(a) Timing.
(b) Joining.
(c) The dozens.
(d) One upmanship.

3. In Chapter 10, what does McCall successfully do with an ice cream truck?
(a) Work the route.
(b) Drive it.
(c) Steal it.
(d) Paint it.

4. 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.

5. What is the name of the school McCall's parents move him back to after he did not fit in at the white junior high school?
(a) W.E. Waters.
(b) J.L. Phillips.
(c) Tidewater.
(d) G.T. McClean.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the boy in Part I of the book that McCall and others think is dead, only to find him alive and at home when they return to their neighborhood?

2. McCall vows to do what he can to help but has no idea what to do when his girlfriend tells him what?

3. After McCall and his friends beat the young man in Chapter 1, what does McCall admit he feared for a moment?

4. When the family arrives at their new home in 1964, McCall's stepfather works full-time and does lawn work part-time to support the family, after retiring from where?

5. In Chapter 9, McCall and his friends' ongoing feud with one group is interrupted by a new threat from where?

(see the answer key)

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