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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is assaulted by several guys before she and McCall consummate the act?
2. At one point in Chapter 6, McCall describes "trains" as what?
3. After July 19, 1973, McCall is soon accepted into how many colleges?
4. How old was McCall's mother when she began her relationship with McCall's biological father?
5. In Chapter 2, readers discover that many feel the new housing development for blacks was created not to provide equal housing but for what?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 5, how is McCall affected after being caught shoplifting?
2. In Chapter 20 and 21, how do McCall's encounters with women affect him?
3. 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?
4. 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?
5. In the opening chapter when McCall, along with others, is beating the young white boy, what is going on in McCall's head?
6. When several of McCall's friends decide to drop out of school, why does McCall stay in school?
7. Why does McCall dislike his stepfather's behavior with white people?
8. How does McCall and Elisabeth's scam affect them and the neighborhood?
9. In Part I of the book, why does McCall think a junior high school was built near the black housing development?
10. Why does McCall refer to the fighting of whites and among groups and gangs, in Chapter 7 as "dress rehearsal?"
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Chapter 34, McCall talks about the pressure not to marry Debbie and his idea that the marriage will legitimize things. Explain circumstances. Discuss how the the pressure to not marry and McCall's perception of "legitimization" compare to McCall's decisions in earlier years on the streets and in the prison.
Essay Topic 2
Looking at Part III of the book, highlight examples of McCall's race sensitivity as well as when he let it overcome him and when he stepped back and did not let it cloud his decisions.
Essay Topic 3
Explain McCall's conflict about deciding whether to join a gang while in prison or walk away (Part II of book, Chapter 17-23). Also discuss how this conflict illustrates McCall's growing maturity.
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