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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 cops.
(c) The people.
(d) The product.

2. In Chapter 11, as McCall's successful criminal activities increase, the youngsters in his neighborhood ____ him.
(a) Respect.
(b) Pay attention to.
(c) Fear.
(d) Like.

3. The wealthier side of the new black housing development is separated from a poorer white neighborhood which is called what?
(a) Cavalier Park.
(b) Cavalier Manor.
(c) Academy Park.
(d) Academy Manor.

4. 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?
(a) Bryan Keith.
(b) Horace.
(c) Prairie Dog.
(d) Bimbo.

5. 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) A rite of passage.
(c) Because his friends did it.
(d) Because his friends wanted him to do it.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, readers discover that many feel the new housing development for blacks was created not to provide equal housing but for what?

2. Who does McCall shoot in the chest after he taunt's McCall's son's mother?

3. 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?

4. In Chapter 3, the reader discovers that McCall was jealous of his grandmother's affections while she worked as what for a Jewish family?

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

(see the answer key)

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