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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. How many days in jail does McCall get for shooting a man in the chest?
2. In Chapter 18, McCall is able to discover literature relevant to his life and pass the time, when he is in what place?
3. In Chapter 14 McCall makes the college honor roll with what grade point average?
4. Who, according to McCall in Chapter 10, backs up his alibi when McCall needs one?
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?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does McCall use his new "power" of the gun when chased by group that has beaten him, and how does he feel?
2. In Chapter 19, how and why do McCall's inmates decorate their cells?
3. What scam do Elisabeth and McCall run in Chapter 15?
4. How does McCall and Elisabeth's scam affect them and the neighborhood?
5. 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?
6. In the opening chapter when McCall, along with others, is beating the young white boy, what is going on in McCall's head?
7. Why do McCall and his stepfather clash about work in Chapter 10?
8. 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?
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 feel he should have acted differently when he refuses work while on a prison type plantation in Chapter 19?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does the clash between McCall and his stepfather about work and keeping a job in Part I of the book, reflect each of their views on dealing with white people? (First explain both points of view.)
Essay Topic 2
In Chapter 12 explain the messages in the movies "Superfly" and "The Mack" and how these messages affect McCall and his friends. What does McCall note about the movies that he just lets go right by him?
Essay Topic 3
In Part III of the book, McCall describes his relationship with Yvette, her challenges with being inferior and the Muslim principle that women hold an inferior position in the home. Looking at McCall's upbringing, his relationship with his mother and his mother's role in McCall's home, how do the two outlooks, situations, etc. clash? Why does McCall have problems with this Muslim principle and how much of this is due to his upbringing and his mother's role in the home?
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