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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. Why does McCall start ignoring his friends after he is named homecoming king?
(a) He moves away.
(b) He gets a job.
(c) He goes to a different school.
(d) He is in love.

2. In Chapter 3, McCall talks about his family, including his two full bothers whose names are what?
(a) Bryan Keith and Billy.
(b) Billy and Junnie.
(c) Billy and Dwight.
(d) Junnie and Dwight.

3. During one of the clashes in Chapter 9, the police arrive and a boy by what name is killed?
(a) Bimbo.
(b) Dwight.
(c) Prairie Dog.
(d) Billy.

4. 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.
(a) Angry.
(b) Unprepared.
(c) Late.
(d) High.

5. McCall meets a man named Moses Battle who teaches MCall how to do what?
(a) Write news articles.
(b) Play chess.
(c) Drive defensively.
(d) Shoot a gun.

Short Answer Questions

1. After July 19, 1973, McCall is soon accepted into how many colleges?

2. Feeling the power of the gun after shooting at a gang chasing him, McCall goes home in Part I and almost confesses all he has done to whom?

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

4. Whatever McCall sells from the armed robberies is because he does not want it or because what?

5. Who, according to McCall in Chapter 10, backs up his alibi when McCall needs one?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does McCall realize about his life after Moses Battle teaches him how to play chess in Chapter 17?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. In Chapter ,4 McCall is now in a black junior high school, but he is still the new kid; what are some things he does to help him fit in?

(see the answer keys)

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