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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 9, McCall and his friends' ongoing feud with one group is interrupted by a new threat from where?
(a) Downtown.
(b) Academy Park.
(c) The new white junior high.
(d) Within the new housing development.

2. In Chapter 10, McCall talks about gifts under a Christmas tree that he ____.
(a) Drops off.
(b) Wraps.
(c) Takes.
(d) Opens.

3. In Chapter 2, readers find that the new black housing development is separated from the poor white neighborhood by what?
(a) A highway.
(b) A swale.
(c) Race.
(d) Hatred.

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

5. According to McCall in Chapter 9, after a boy is killed, who arrives in town with plans for war?
(a) The Army Reserve.
(b) The NAACP.
(c) More rival gangs.
(d) The Black Panthers.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. After someone McCall knows is shot by a homeowner while breaking into a home, what does McCall do?

3. In Chapter 14 McCall makes the college honor roll with what grade point average?

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

5. In Chapter 11, as McCall's successful criminal activities increase, the youngsters in his neighborhood ____ him.

(see the answer key)

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