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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Chapters 17 through 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 stepfather.
(b) His gandmother.
(c) His youngest full brother.
(d) His mother.

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) Late.
(c) Angry.
(d) High.

3. 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) Horace.
(b) Bryan Keith.
(c) Prairie Dog.
(d) Bimbo.

4. In Chapter 12, McCall looks at what movie/show and how it affects young black men?
(a) Shaft.
(b) Leave it to Beaver.
(c) My Three Sons.
(d) Superfly.

5. McCall points out that eventually the young boys will give up their fist fighting in favor of what?
(a) Families.
(b) Knives.
(c) Education.
(d) Guns.

Short Answer Questions

1. At St. Brides, McCall is near his home and can have more what?

2. In the neighborhood junior high school, McCall learns about putting down others as a competitive conversation called what?

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. Besides McCall's brothers, stepfather and mother, who else lives with the family when they move into their new housing development home?

5. What year did McCall's mother begin her relationship with McCall's biological father?

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