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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 St. Brides, McCall has a probation officer constantly telling him what?
(a) Stay out of trouble.
(b) Get your own place.
(c) Get a job.
(d) He does not like him.

2. Who pressures McCall to marry the young woman he is seeing who is having trouble at her job because of feelings of inferiority?
(a) Her parents.
(b) Local church leaders.
(c) His friends.
(d) The Muslims.

3. After this person's trial, McCall found a note on his door telling him to give them money or the note writer would tell the "man" about McCall.
(a) Plaz.
(b) Bimbo.
(c) Chiily Bear.
(d) Scobe.

4. In Chapter 39, McCall interviews for a job with what newspaper?
(a) The Virginia Pilot-Ledger Star.
(b) The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
(c) The Portsmouth Courier.
(d) The Washington Post.

5. In Chapter 26, McCall joins this organization due to his professor's influence.
(a) NAACP.
(b) American Muslim Mission.
(c) Southern Baptists Association.
(d) Black Panthers.

Short Answer Questions

1. McCall has finished his probation, and according to Chapter 31, has a job offer where?

2. After the birth of his daughter, McCall gives in to pressure to do what?

3. In Chapter 30, McCall begins to connect with whom but then this person has to move?

4. After McCall meets up with his biological father again in Chapter 30, McCall's father tells him to call when he wants to do what?

5. In Chapter 44, McCall boils down his life and that of his friends to one word, which is what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does McCall's reaction to the watermelon eating contest assignment reflect his racial sensitivity?

2. In Part III, what relationship does McCall have with his editor?

3. Why is McCall now afraid of the people with whom he was once so comfortable?

4. What happens with the divorce from Debbie in Chapter 41?

5. How does McCall proceed with the advice he got from Milton regarding his prison record during the Washington Post interview?

6. In Chapter 35, how is McCall fitting into the mainstream?

7. How does McCall's relationship with his son, Monroe, compare to McCall's relationship with his biological father as described in Chapter 30?

8. Why doesn't McCall trust anyone at the Virginia Pilot-Ledger Star where he works?

9. Why do friends and family have to help McCall when he goes to visit his kids in Atlanta, in Chapter 42?

10. How does Danny's driving curiosity about race affect his relationship with McCall?

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