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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 8 is effectively "Day 3" in Blood's new life as a professional pimp with Runt as his working girl. After breakfast, how does Day 3 begin?
(a) Glass Top and Blood get high.
(b) Sweet Jones calls on Blood.
(c) Blood beats Runt.
(d) Glass Top takes Blood to Sweet Jones's penthouse.

2. What does Blood tell himself when Runt leaves and doesn't return after he beats her with the wire?
(a) That he will call Mama.
(b) That the wire was probably overkill.
(c) That he'll never do it again.
(d) That she deserved it.

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

4. What is the setting after Blood is released from prison the second time?
(a) Minneapolis, MN.
(b) Chicago, IL.
(c) Milwaukee, WI.
(d) Indianapolis, IN.

5. What does Blood buy Preston as a form of payment?
(a) A new watch.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) A prostitute.
(d) A new pair of shoes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Pretty Preston's career before Sweet Jones double-crossed him?

3. Where does Bobby meet Pepper?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Blood show his courage and psychological insight in his dealings with Sweet Jones in Chapter 6?

2. Apart from a beating, what does Sweet Jones provide for Blood during their first meeting?

3. Who are the first pimps and prostitutes in young Bobby's life and how is his encounter with them a generally positive experience?

4. What is one of Slim's secrets to success for pimping in Chicago?

5. Does it seem somewhat perverse that Blood whips Runt with a wire and then gets depressed when she leaves and doesn't come back by her usual time in Chapter 11? What does this say about the nature of an abusive relationship?

6. Diamond Tooth Jimmy and Party Time (Chapter 2), Weeping Shorty (Chapter 3), Poison, Sweet Jones, Glass Top and Pretty Preston are all street names for pimps and other characters of the underworld that Blood inhabits. What are some other professions that prefer or require nicknames for their operatives and why?

7. How is Pretty Preston used as a foil for Sweet Jones?

8. Blood gets up on his second day in Chicago and immediately gets high before going out for the night in Chapter 7. How does this sequence of events foreshadow a potential for backfire in Blood's plan to befriend Glass Top to get to Sweet Jones?

9. Why do Blood and Sweet Jones never discuss their differing opinions on white society?

10. How is Bobby "torn from the nest"?

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