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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) The Coast Guard.
(b) The Air Force.
(c) The Army.
(d) The Navy.

3. In Chapter 9, McCall is arrested for possession of what?
(a) Cocaine.
(b) Sawed-off shot gun.
(c) Heroin.
(d) Marijuana.

4. In what year does McCall briefly attend a white junior high school for purposes of integration?
(a) 1966.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1967.

5. 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) Nanny.
(b) Maid.
(c) Cook.
(d) Nurse.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many bedrooms does the new housing development home have?

2. In Chapter 7, McCall likens all the fighting between groups, gangs, and others as what?

3. In Chapter 3, McCall talks about his family, including his two full bothers whose names are what?

4. Feeling the power of the gun after shooting at a gang chasing him, McCall goes home in Part I and almost confesses all he has done to whom?

5. At one point in Chapter 6, McCall describes "trains" as what?

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