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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19: The Ice Pick.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a "Cop and Blow" scheme?
(a) A method for paying the police off.
(b) A way to get dirty cops to provide drugs.
(c) A trick to get new prostitutes.
(d) A trick to get prostitutes to work harder.

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

3. According to the psychiatrists, why did Bobby choose to become a pimp?
(a) Head trauma from when his father threw him against the wall.
(b) Henry Upshaw's treatment of his mother.
(c) Watching Steve work.
(d) His subconscious hatred of his mother.

4. How does Blood leave Melody?
(a) Tied to a bed.
(b) Asleep.
(c) Handcuffed to a railing.
(d) Alone on a street corner.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What particularly pleases Slim about his escape from State Workforce?

2. After the beating with the wire, Runt leaves and still has not returned by what time?

3. Prior to abandoning the family, what was the job of Bobby's father at the hotel?

4. When Bobby gets out of Reformatory, where is Mama working?

5. For their first "formal" meeting, how does Glass Top introduce Blood to Sweet Jones?

(see the answer key)

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