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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As McCall learns more about what process, he finally makes a career choice?
(a) Educational.
(b) Writing.
(c) Printing.
(d) Business systems.

2. In Chapter 17, McCall is taken to this place and McCall notes that how you enter this place says a lot about you; what is this place?
(a) New School.
(b) Military.
(c) New assignment.
(d) Jail.

3. When McCall writes to the college in Chapter 23, he explains his situation and asks for what?
(a) Current catalogs.
(b) An internship.
(c) A new start.
(d) A job.

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

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

6. In Chapter 11, McCall describes how he begins hustling people and then what?
(a) Breaking into homes.
(b) Encouraging his siblings to steal.
(c) Stealing from his parents.
(d) Hanging out with drug dealers.

7. What is McCall doing in Chapter 15 while his relationships with family deteriorate and McCall becomes more paranoid?
(a) Doing jail time.
(b) Working and going to school.
(c) Working two jobs.
(d) Doing drugs.

8. After McCall does what the college tells him to do in Chapter 23, McCall ____ a year's tuition.
(a) Wins.
(b) Gets waived.
(c) Borrows.
(d) Pays.

9. In Chapter 7, what is the name of the young man that fights McCall to "toughen" him up?
(a) Billy.
(b) Horace.
(c) Bimbo.
(d) Prairie Dog.

10. 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 mother.
(d) His youngest full brother.

11. In Chapter 18, McCall is able to discover literature relevant to his life and pass the time, when he is in what place?
(a) Local museum.
(b) Courthouse law library.
(c) Visiting professor's class.
(d) Prison library.

12. In Chapter 23, what is the name of the former teacher McCall encounters and wishes to tell that his lessons made a difference?
(a) Miller.
(b) Jones.
(c) Butler.
(d) Gates.

13. When several of McCall's friends drop out of school, what does McCall give as his reason for staying in school?
(a) Obeying his parents.
(b) Getting an education.
(c) Having access to school equipment.
(d) Being close to the girls.

14. In Chapter 23, the college responds to McCall, telling him to do what?
(a) Try again next semester.
(b) Enter a contest.
(c) Send his transcripts.
(d) Seek help elsewhere.

15. What kind of vehicle does McCall's stepfather drive that is also a cause for tension at McCall's job?
(a) An Eldorado.
(b) A Cadillac.
(c) A work truck.
(d) An Oldsmobile.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. At one point in Chapter 6, McCall describes "trains" as what?

4. In Chapter 8, McCall is severely beaten by whom?

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

(see the answer keys)

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