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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. After July 19, 1973, McCall is soon accepted into how many colleges?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

2. In Chapter 9, McCall and his friends' ongoing feud with one group is interrupted by a new threat from where?
(a) Academy Park.
(b) Within the new housing development.
(c) Downtown.
(d) The new white junior high.

3. From where is McCall released in February 1978?
(a) Current newspaper assignment.
(b) Medical supervision.
(c) Prison.
(d) Military duty.

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

5. 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) Jail.
(b) New School.
(c) New assignment.
(d) Military.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. McCall vows to do what he can to help but has no idea what to do when his girlfriend tells him what?

3. In Chapter 2, readers discover that many feel the new housing development for blacks was created not to provide equal housing but for what?

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

5. In Chapter 7, what is the name of the young man that fights McCall to "toughen" him up?

Short Essay Questions

1. McCall describes his experience with a "train" being run on someone he cares about. How does McCall feel about this and what leads up to this event?

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

3. What does the Cadillac symbolize for McCall's stepfather in Chapter 10 and how does it affect McCall?

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

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

6. How does McCall respond after going to a party in a hostile neighborhood unarmed with his friends and losing one of their own after fleeing shots from rival group?

7. Why does McCall feel he should have acted differently when he refuses work while on a prison type plantation in Chapter 19?

8. In Chapter 5, how is McCall affected after being caught shoplifting?

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

10. Why is McCall relieved when he is realizes he will have to serve at least 18 months in jail of his sentence of several years for robbing McDonald's?

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