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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does Mama live after Slim is released from jail early?
(a) Six weeks.
(b) Six months.
(c) 12 months.
(d) Two months.

2. Who does Slim team up with to execute his plan after getting out of Leavenworth?
(a) Red Eye.
(b) Chris.
(c) Mavis.
(d) Runt.

3. Why does Slim "lose" his fourth prostitute?
(a) She's too ugly to bring in much money.
(b) She's too possessive.
(c) She's too reckless to be safe.
(d) She runs away to be a dancer.

4. When Sim runs from the FBI, who is the only person who knows where he is going?
(a) Carmen.
(b) Runt.
(c) Sweet Jones.
(d) Chris.

5. How long does Slim spend in detox in Seattle?
(a) Two months.
(b) Five days.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) Five weeks.

6. What has happened to Pretty Preston since Slim ran away to hide from the FBI?
(a) He has started pimping again to take over Slim's spot.
(b) He lost his job and moved to Las Vegas.
(c) He was shot by Sweet Jones.
(d) He died of frostbite.

7. Where is Mama living in 1953?
(a) Minnesota.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) California.
(d) Las Vegas.

8. When Slim is arrested in Montana, what is the charge?
(a) Indecent exposure.
(b) Being drunk in public.
(c) Pimping.
(d) Having a woman in his hotel room he is not married to.

9. Why does Runt not like Carmen?
(a) Carmen cheated Runt out of a trick.
(b) Runt feels like she's being replaced.
(c) Carmen sleeps with Slim more often.
(d) Runt doesn't like anyone.

10. What does "No Thumbs" Helen specialize in besides turning tricks?
(a) She makes a specialty of sleeping with policemen.
(b) She steals men's wallets.
(c) She drugs her tricks so they can't turn her in.
(d) She can perform certain sex acts in spite of having only four fingers on each hand.

11. Why is Iceberg Slim's, or "Slim's," coke habit a secret?
(a) He doesn't want to get arrested.
(b) He thinks it doesn't fit his image.
(c) It may be perceived as a weakness.
(d) He doesn't want Runt to know.

12. Which of Slim's relatives reappears briefly in Chapter 14?
(a) Steve.
(b) Mama.
(c) His biological father.
(d) Henry Upshaw.

13. Who is so impressed with Blood's reaction that he changes Blood's street moniker to "Iceberg Slim"?
(a) Pretty Preston.
(b) Runt.
(c) Sweet Jones.
(d) Glass Top.

14. What particularly pleases Slim about his escape from State Workforce?
(a) Having duped white men.
(b) Having access to drugs again.
(c) Breathing fresh air.
(d) Being able to find Chris.

15. Where is Slim when Pearl Harbor is bombed?
(a) Laying in bed with Runt.
(b) At the Roost.
(c) Sweet Jones' penthouse.
(d) Getting high with Glass Top in his hotel room.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Slim connive to keep Rachel loyal to him?

2. Sim is convicted on charges of escaping and sentenced to how long in prison?

3. What character from Slim's past turns up in Chapter 20 as a garbageman?

4. What three things does Runt bring to Blood the morning she returns to him (after the wire beating)?

5. After shooting Serena, Slim runs to his mother's house and goes to find Sweet Jones. What has Sweet recently done?

(see the answer keys)

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