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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. 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 clothes.
(d) Blood's attitude towards pimping.

2. For their first "formal" meeting, how does Glass Top introduce Blood to Sweet Jones?
(a) From his car.
(b) With a joke.
(c) As his nephew.
(d) As his son.

3. What does Bobby's biological father want to do with him as a baby?
(a) Leave him at the hotel.
(b) Take him to the police station.
(c) Use him to make money.
(d) Leave him on the steps of the Catholic Church.

4. Party Time gets busted for the con he runs with Bobby, but Bobby doesn't go to jail with him. Why not?
(a) Party Time can't produce evidence to convict Bobby.
(b) Bobby runs away before the police can catch him.
(c) Bobby rats out Party Time.
(d) Party Time does not give his name to the police.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the setting after Blood is released from prison the second time?

2. Where does Bobby enroll in college?

3. When Runt doesn't return after the wire beating, what does Blood realize about his relationship with Runt?

4. After the beating with the wire, Runt leaves and still has not returned by what time?

5. What is Poison doing the first time Blood sees him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Many characters come and go in the story without being given names, even if they play a reasonably memorable role for the author (like the banker with the big tip in Chapter 1). However, in Chapter 9, Silas plays a singularly minor role and yet is given a name and place in the story. What significance could be attributed to this?

2. At the end of Chapter 5, when Blood beats Runt for the first time, he begins to have flashbacks to his childhood and Mama. What insight do these flashbacks provide to Blood's life and personality?

3. Like many of the chapters, the title of Chapter 6, "Drilling for Oil" may have multiple meanings. What are two possible interpretations of the "Oil" that Slim is drilling for?

4. How does Blood's experience with Pepper instill in him a desire for money?

5. Bobby accepts the invitation to attend Tuskegee University initially and only leaves when kicked out for bad behavior. How is Bobby's decision to attend college indicative of his frame of mind at this age?

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 does the incident with Melody provide a metaphor for Blood's relationship with and attitude towards the white world?

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

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

10. How does the IQ test Blood receives from his parole officer change his life in Chapter 3?

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