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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 ,1 McCall and his friends are what age when they attack another young boy?
(a) Teenagers.
(b) Adults.
(c) Middle school age.
(d) Elementary school age.

2. 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.
(a) Unprepared.
(b) Angry.
(c) High.
(d) Late.

3. Besides McCall's brothers, stepfather and mother, who else lives with the family when they move into their new housing development home?
(a) Liz.
(b) Bampoose.
(c) J.L.
(d) Debbie.

4. How old was McCall's mother when she began her relationship with McCall's biological father?
(a) 13.
(b) 18.
(c) 14.
(d) 15.

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) Nurse.
(d) Cook.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, readers find that the new black housing development is separated from the poor white neighborhood by what?

2. In 1964, McCall and his family move into a new housing development called what?

3. 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?

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

5. In Chapter 4, "pimping" is a kind of what?

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