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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. What is the name of the book that eventually turns McCall on to religion?
(a) Malcolm X.
(b) The Bible.
(c) As a Man Thinketh.
(d) The Rebel Jesus.

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

3. Who, according to McCall in Chapter 10, backs up his alibi when McCall needs one?
(a) His father.
(b) His girlfriend.
(c) His oldest brother.
(d) His mother.

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

5. In 1964, McCall and his family move into a new housing development called what?
(a) Academy Manor.
(b) Cavalier Park.
(c) Academy Park.
(d) Cavalier Manor.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part I of the book, McCall recalls a moment when this person grabbed one of his brothers and told them to "stop acting like a nigger." Who is this person?

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

3. In Chapter 16, McCall and his son's mother run a scam that besides them affects other peoples what?

4. In Chapter 18, McCall is able to discover literature relevant to his life and pass the time, when he is in what place?

5. In Chapter 21, McCall writes about his sexual frustration, describing how rival gangs even fight over someone whose name is what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do McCall and his stepfather clash about work in Chapter 10?

2. In the opening chapter when McCall, along with others, is beating the young white boy, what is going on in McCall's head?

3. What happens with Plaz and how is McCall's stepfather involved?

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

5. Why does McCall refer to the fighting of whites and among groups and gangs, in Chapter 7 as "dress rehearsal?"

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

7. When the new housing development is built for blacks, what does McCall describe as the stated goal and the perceived goal for this project?

8. In Part I of the book, why does McCall think a junior high school was built near the black housing development?

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

10. Early in Part I of the book, McCall presents his "understanding" about white people which is what?

(see the answer keys)

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