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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. What is the name of the boy shot in McCall's front yard?
2. In Chapter 7, McCall likens all the fighting between groups, gangs, and others as what?
3. In Chapter 3, the reader discovers that McCall was jealous of his grandmother's affections while she worked as what for a Jewish family?
4. In Chapter 10, what does McCall successfully do with an ice cream truck?
5. After McCall and his friends beat the young man in Chapter 1, what does McCall admit he feared for a moment?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 20 and 21, how do McCall's encounters with women affect him?
2. 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?
3. When several of McCall's friends decide to drop out of school, why does McCall stay in school?
4. Why is McCall relieved when he is realizes he will have to serve at least 18 months in jail of his sentence of several years for robbing McDonald's?
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. From Chapter 23, how does McCall's behavior indicate his new found realization that he needs to take actions for the long term?
8. McCall's relationship with Elisabeth Miller keeps him off the streets but raises a different issue. Explain.
9. Why does McCall refer to the fighting of whites and among groups and gangs, in Chapter 7 as "dress rehearsal?"
10. How does McCall use his new "power" of the gun when chased by group that has beaten him, and how does he feel?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Chapters 35 through 39, McCall encounters trendy blacks, advice from Milton Campbell, reaction of fellow journalists in Missouri and Danny his co-worker. How does each of these situations affect McCall's perceptions about race? What challenges him? What changes him? Why?
Essay Topic 2
How does McCall's driving around and never finding his friends serve as an analogy of his life up to this point? Be specific and support with details from McCall's life up to this point.
Essay Topic 3
How are the people in McCall's life, outside of the prison, affected by his incarceration? (His son, Elisabeth, his parents, siblings, grandmother, etc.)
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