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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. How old is McCall's mother by the time she has birthed three sons?
(a) 21.
(b) 15.
(c) 18.
(d) 17.

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

3. 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) Use contaminated land no one else wanted to develop.
(b) Provide new homes for blacks.
(c) Boost the political image of supporting politicians.
(d) Confine blacks to a specific neighborhood.

4. At one point in Chapter 6, McCall describes "trains" as what?
(a) Gang Bangs.
(b) Drive-bys from rival gangs.
(c) Long trips.
(d) New city buses.

5. 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?
(a) His mother.
(b) His stepfather.
(c) His youngest full brother.
(d) His gandmother.

Short Answer Questions

1. As the new kid in the black junior high school, McCall is introduced to the term "getting clean" which means what?

2. The young boy attacked in Chapter 1 is riding what when he is attacked?

3. 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?

4. In Part I of the book, McCall recalls a moment when this person grabbed one of his brothers and told them to "stop acting like a nigger." Who is this person?

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

(see the answer key)

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