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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Danny Baum?
(a) A white journalist.
(b) McCall's neighbor.
(c) McCall's boss.
(d) A local politician.

2. McCall realizes that he disagrees with the practice of women holding inferior positions in the home so he eventually does what, as noted in Chapter 26?
(a) Helps his wife overcome this teaching.
(b) Writes a paper about the injustice of this principle.
(c) Drops out of religious meetings.
(d) Joins a group to fight this principle.

3. In Chapter 30, McCall begins to connect with whom but then this person has to move?
(a) Horace.
(b) Billy.
(c) Monroe.
(d) J.L.

4. Once hired by the newspaper, McCall describes being uncomfortable working what assignment?
(a) Politics.
(b) The court beat.
(c) Social scene.
(d) Violent crimes.

5. In Chapter 33, what family member's funeral does McCall attend?
(a) His mother.
(b) His bilogical father.
(c) His stepfather.
(d) His grandmother.

6. When having lunch with a white person, McCall notes that he never orders what?
(a) Watermelon.
(b) Collard greens.
(c) Soda.
(d) Chicken.

7. In Chapter 34, the mother of McCall's kids threatens to move back to where?
(a) Portsmouth.
(b) Virginia Beach.
(c) Norfolk.
(d) Lynchburg.

8. McCall is challenged one day while he is out doing what, as noted in Chapter 40?
(a) Hanging with his buddies.
(b) Working an assignment.
(c) Driving.
(d) Walking.

9. McCall describes how he is so racially sensitive he can not enjoy an assignment covering what kind of contest?
(a) Cotton picking.
(b) Watermelon eating.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Corn husking.

10. In Chapter 30, McCall recalls that when he and his brothers were really young, their father did not show up to take them where?
(a) Shopping.
(b) Fishing.
(c) Swimming.
(d) Skating.

11. After arriving home from St. Brides, McCall makes arrangements to see whom but feels awkward around this person?
(a) Monroe.
(b) Bampoose.
(c) J.L.
(d) Billy.

12. Whose high school graduation does McCall note in Chapter 43?
(a) His grandchild.
(b) Monroe.
(c) His oldest daughter.
(d) His own.

13. In Chapter 27, McCall has graduated from college and is looking for a job but he has two strikes against him, one being what?
(a) He is black.
(b) He is white.
(c) He is former addict.
(d) He is male.

14. In Part III of the book, this co-worker, whom McCall befriends, is of what faith?
(a) Islamic.
(b) Buddhist.
(c) Jewish.
(d) Christian.

15. According to McCall in Chapter 25, who is diagnosed with a terminal illness and kills himself and his wife?
(a) Scobe.
(b) Bimbo.
(c) Plaz.
(d) Horace.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 43, this woman claims to have birthed a child father by McCall.

2. In Chapter 24, what is the name of the person McCall talks about who shoots someone in the back over a basketball game?

3. When McCall is confronted about leaving his prison record off of his application, what does he do in Chapter 39?

4. After thinking about robbing a convenience store in Chapter 24, McCall decides to do what?

5. During dinner with program fellows, McCall shares what information with them and they all part closer than they were before?

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