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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Runt and Blood immediately begin to do after they arrive in the Chapter 5 setting?
(a) Find old friends.
(b) Scope places for Runt to work.
(c) Find an apartment.
(d) Establish a turf.

2. Who introduces professional pimping into Blood's life?
(a) Weeping Shorty.
(b) Golden Jive.
(c) Iceberg Slim.
(d) Diamond Cat.

3. What does Blood do first upon waking up in Chapter 7?
(a) Get high.
(b) Abuse Runt.
(c) Get drunk.
(d) Eat breakfast.

4. After beating Runt with a wire, how does Blood respond to his own reaction?
(a) Contemptuously.
(b) Cries and nurses her wounds.
(c) Throws her out on the street so he doesn't have to look at her.
(d) Contemplates suicide.

5. Where has Runt recently come from when she first meets Blood?
(a) New York.
(b) Chicago.
(c) St. Louis.
(d) Los Angeles.

6. What does Chris do for the first time with Blood?
(a) Takes cocaine.
(b) Talks about her life.
(c) Takes heroin.
(d) Defies her husband.

7. How does Blood come to view Sweet Jones?
(a) As the pinnacle of pimping success.
(b) As the epitome of what not to be as a pimp.
(c) As a warning of the dangers of his newfound career.
(d) As a younger brother.

8. Blood is still very new at the pimping game and has to constantly remind himself of what?
(a) How to keep his cool.
(b) What the other pimps said in jail.
(c) Who the biggest pimp in town is.
(d) What he must do to keep Runt happy.

9. 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.

10. What does Sweet Jones say that he hates about Blood during their first formal meeting?
(a) Blood's clothes.
(b) Blood's constant grinning.
(c) Blood's attitude towards pimping.
(d) Blood's attitude towarrds him (Sweet Jones).

11. Who is Blood told is the most successful pimp in the area (Chapter 5 setting)?
(a) Pretty Preston.
(b) Pretty Boy Junior.
(c) Poison.
(d) Sweet Jones.

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

13. Pepper turns the tables on the con Blood attempts and accuses him of what?
(a) Trespassing.
(b) Theft.
(c) Rape.
(d) Drug dealing.

14. How does Blood feel about Chris leaving when her husband takes her away?
(a) He regrets her leaving.
(b) He is crushed.
(c) He is confident she will come back.
(d) He is indifferent.

15. Why can't Blood gets what he needs at the beginning of Chapter 10?
(a) Sweet Jones isn't taking visitors.
(b) The neighbors are being too loud.
(c) Glass Top is out of town.
(d) Runt is already out working.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Blood go back to his car to do after his first encounter with Sweet Jones?

2. What does Blood do in reaction to Runt's story about her night of work (back in Chapter 8)?

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

4. How does Blood leave Melody?

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

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