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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. In the credits in Chapter One, Kathy O'Brien is credited as what?
(a) Doubting Defense Attorney.
(b) Assistant D.A.
(c) District Doubter.
(d) Defense Attorney with Doubts.

2. According to Osvaldo, how old is Bobo?
(a) 22.
(b) 24.
(c) 16.
(d) 14.

3. How many ambulances respond to the drugstore crime?
(a) Unkown.
(b) Two.
(c) None.
(d) One.

4. Who is comforting whom at the end of the scene between Steve and his father?
(a) Steve comforts his father.
(b) Sunset comforts Steve.
(c) His father comforts Steve.
(d) A guard comforts Steve's father.

5. Which prisoner is sitting on the toilet in the first chapter?
(a) Bobo.
(b) Steve.
(c) Ernie.
(d) Sunset.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Steve say about the camera in the kind of movie he feels his life is like in the prologue?

2. In the credits in Chapter 1, James King is credited as what?

3. According to Osvaldo, how old is he?

4. How old is Steve's brother?

5. The stage directions refer to Wendell Bolden's hands as what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How can Steve's lawyer be described?

2. What kind of knife does one prisoner have? Describe it.

3. How does the typeface of Steve's journal entries indicate stress or special meaning on certain words?

4. What does Steve say in his journal for Tuesday, July 7, that all the other prisoners are always talking about?

5. What happens when a preacher comes to visit the prisoners?

6. What does Star Wars have to do with the way Steve designs the beginning of his film?

7. When Steve decides to write a movie, what does he say it will be a story of?

8. Why is one of the other prisoners, Acie, not worried about his impending verdict?

9. In the prologue, Steve says "they say you get used to being in jail." What is Steve's take on this passage?

10. Why is Steve not hungry on the morning of Monday, July 6?

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