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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: Grinning Slim.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Glass Top provide for Sweet Jones, other pimps, and eventually Blood?
(a) Gambling tips.
(b) Women to work for them.
(c) Tips on the local police.
(d) Drugs.

2. Who is young Bobby's first sexual encounter?.
(a) Steve.
(b) The waitress at the hotel where Mama works.
(c) One of Mama's hairstyling customers.
(d) His babysitter, Maude.

3. Where are young Bobby and his Mama living when Henry Upshaw comes into their lives?
(a) Indianapolis.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Rockford.

4. Who is the first and last positive, stable and loving person in Bobby's early life?
(a) Steve.
(b) Maude.
(c) Mama.
(d) Henry Upshaw.

5. Party Time gets busted for the con he runs with Bobby, but Bobby doesn't go to jail with him. Why not?
(a) Party Time can't produce evidence to convict Bobby.
(b) Bobby rats out Party Time.
(c) Party Time does not give his name to the police.
(d) Bobby runs away before the police can catch him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Bobby and his family (biological mother and father) leave Chicago?

2. Pimps earn wages by psychological manipulation, but do NOT do what?

3. Who does Blood decide can get him a positive introduction to Sweet Jones so he can get what he wants from him?

4. How does what happens to Oscar affect Bobby's later actions in prison?

5. What does Bobby's biological father want to do with him as a baby?

(see the answer key)

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