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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) Establish a turf.
(c) Scope places for Runt to work.
(d) Find an apartment.

2. What happens to Henry after Mama and Bobby leave him for Steve?
(a) He dies a year later.
(b) He becomes crippled for life after a car accident.
(c) He spends years searching for Bobby and Mama.
(d) He loses his job and becomes homeless within months.

3. After Pepper gets Blood sent to jail on false charges, Blood takes advantage of a different kind of education. What does Blood learn in jail?
(a) How to con a rich man.
(b) What he could have done at University.
(c) Getting started as a successful drug dealer.
(d) All the tips and tricks of a successful pimp.

4. Why doesn't Chris want to talk to Blood?
(a) She is afraid of Blood.
(b) She is afraid her husband will get jealous.
(c) She hates pimps.
(d) She thinks Blood is ugly.

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

6. What does Blood do in reaction to Runt's story about her night of work (back in Chapter 8)?
(a) Beats her.
(b) Takes care of her.
(c) Sends her back out to work.
(d) Pays off the police.

7. In later life, Bobby is told that being a pimp demands a certain personality trait. What is it?
(a) Natural inclination towards violence.
(b) Addiction to sexual relations with women.
(c) Disrespect for women.
(d) Innate desire to hurt or kill his mother.

8. Why does Pretty Preston's attempt at revenge on Sweet Jones fail?
(a) Sweet Jones leaves.
(b) Sweet Jones calls the police.
(c) Pretty Preston passes out.
(d) Pretty Preston chickens out.

9. Getting started on his first "real" night of pimping with Runt, Blood muses on how he is going to be successful in a white man's world. What does he think will accomplish this?
(a) Respect of his fellow pimps.
(b) Bribing the police.
(c) Enough money.
(d) Control of women.

10. How long does Bobby spend in Reformatory?
(a) 24 months.
(b) 18 months.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 10 months.

11. How are Runt and Blood traveling in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) In Blood's brand new convertible.
(b) By stowing away on a train.
(c) By hitchiking.
(d) In Runt's yellow Ford car.

12. Prior to abandoning the family, what was the job of Bobby's father at the hotel?
(a) Custodian.
(b) Busboy.
(c) Chef.
(d) Bellhop.

13. What does Runt complain about to Blood when he returns from Sweet Jones' house and discovers she hasn't left to start working?
(a) She claims she's sick and unable to work.
(b) She hates the other working girls she competes against.
(c) She's afraid of the police.
(d) She doesn't want to work anymore.

14. After returning home from University, Bobby takes advantage of Mama's frequent absence from home and becomes friends with who?
(a) Silver Sal.
(b) "Guns" Grisham.
(c) Party Time.
(d) Diamond Tooth Jimmy.

15. What is the time span of Chapter 7?
(a) One work week.
(b) 24 hours.
(c) One "working" day.
(d) Three hours.

Short Answer Questions

1. Blood and Runt leave Milwaukee and go where to begin their new lives?

2. For what does Bobby do his first time in jail?

3. How is Sweet Jones' motivation for pimping described?

4. Where are young Bobby and his Mama living when Henry Upshaw comes into their lives?

5. Who is the first and last positive, stable and loving person in Bobby's early life?

(see the answer keys)

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