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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. In what year does McCall briefly attend a white junior high school for purposes of integration?
(a) 1966.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1969.

2. According to McCall in Chapter 9, after a boy is killed, who arrives in town with plans for war?
(a) More rival gangs.
(b) The NAACP.
(c) The Army Reserve.
(d) The Black Panthers.

3. After losing his job, McCall is soon looking for opportunities to do what?
(a) Help at home.
(b) Date.
(c) Work.
(d) Steal.

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

5. In Chapter 20, McCall is hurt when the mother of his son announces she is doing what?
(a) Putting their son up for adoption.
(b) Moving.
(c) Filing for divorce.
(d) Seeing someone else.

Short Answer Questions

1. Even being on the honor roll and adults pulling for his academic success is not enough to pull McCall from his old life, so in Chapter 14 McCall describes going to his college classes ___ or not showing up at all.

2. What does McCall reveal to enjoy about school besides the reason he gives his friends for staying in school?

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

4. In Chapter 10, McCall talks about gifts under a Christmas tree that he ____.

5. In Chapter 22, McCall comes to realize that many blacks feel education has nothing to do with them so they do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. How does McCall use his new "power" of the gun when chased by group that has beaten him, and how does he feel?

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

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

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

8. McCall's relationship with Elisabeth Miller keeps him off the streets but raises a different issue. Explain.

9. 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?

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

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