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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) All the tips and tricks of a successful pimp.
(c) What he could have done at University.
(d) Getting started as a successful drug dealer.

2. 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.

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

4. What is Poison doing the first time Blood sees him?
(a) Fighting with a police officer.
(b) Buying a high class suit.
(c) Beating his prostitute.
(d) Stealing liquor.

5. After Bobby's father leaves and Mama must make ends meet, how much does a hairstyle from Mama cost?
(a) One dollar.
(b) Fifty cents.
(c) Twenty cents.
(d) One nickel.

6. What is Blood's first "need" at the beginning of Chapter 10?
(a) Drugs.
(b) Medication.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Runt.

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

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

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

10. What reality of racial prejudice in the legal system is Blood faced with after his encounter with Melody?
(a) A white person's word will always be believed over a black person's.
(b) White people don't usually break the law.
(c) A black man cannot have sex with a white woman.
(d) Black people will always get a fair trial.

11. How old is Bobby when he is molested for the first time?
(a) 3 years old.
(b) 3 months old.
(c) 7 months old.
(d) 5 years old.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the psychiatrists, why did Bobby choose to become a pimp?

2. What does Blood tell himself when Runt leaves and doesn't return after he beats her with the wire?

3. How does Blood know the things he knows about Sweet Jones (like his essential motivation)?

4. While Blood is sitting in his parked car outside the Roost, Pretty Preston jumps in and tells Blood what he plans to do to Sweet Jones for revenge. What is it?

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

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