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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The young boy attacked in Chapter 1 is riding what when he is attacked?
(a) The bus.
(b) A skateboard.
(c) A bicycle.
(d) A scooter.

2. What is the name of the boy shot in McCall's front yard?
(a) Dwight.
(b) Bimbo.
(c) Horace.
(d) Prairie Dog.

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?
(a) G.T. McClean.
(b) J.L. Phillips.
(c) Tidewater.
(d) W.E. Waters.

4. On a weekend furlough in Chapter 22, McCall spends the night with whom and realizes the feeling between them is gone?
(a) Elisabeth.
(b) Debbie.
(c) Valerie.
(d) Denise.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to McCall in Chapter 23, after making his career choice, he writes to what college?

2. How many bedrooms does the new housing development home have?

3. What is the name of the girl crowned homecoming queen in Chapter 13?

4. In Chapter 23, McCall is introduced to the fundamentals of what religion?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does McCall relate what happens with the manual prison labor in Chapter 19 with his stepfather's teachings?

2. How does McCall's advancing knowledge from Jim in Chapter 22 affect McCall's perception of blacks and education?

3. From Chapter 23, how does McCall's behavior indicate his new found realization that he needs to take actions for the long term?

4. How does McCall and Elisabeth's scam affect them and the neighborhood?

5. In Part I, McCall describes the power he gets from having a gun. How does this affect him?

6. In Chapter 19, how and why do McCall's inmates decorate their cells?

7. While driving around after graduation and not finding place to meet up with friends, what does McCall mean when he cites this driving around as an analogy of his life at this point?

8. According to McCall in Chapter 6, why does he expect that his mother should have talked to her boys about sex?

9. In Part I, why does McCall envy the dirty white children running around in a restaurant?

10. In Chapter 20 and 21, how do McCall's encounters with women affect him?

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