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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 is Runt doing when Blood returns from Sweet Jones' penthouse at the beginning of Chapter 11?
(a) Crying in the bathroom.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Drinking heavily.
(d) Smoking marijuana.

2. Blood and Runt leave Milwaukee and go where to begin their new lives?
(a) Detroit.
(b) Minneapolis.
(c) Indianapolis.
(d) Chicago.

3. Who does Blood meet for the first time, his first night at the Roost?
(a) The owner of the Roost.
(b) Poison.
(c) Runt's ex-husband.
(d) Sweet Jones.

4. When Bobby gets out of Reformatory, where is Mama working?
(a) Minneapolis hotel.
(b) Indianapolis hair salon.
(c) Minneapolis beauty shop.
(d) Chicago hotel.

5. 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 attitude towards pimping.
(c) Blood's constant grinning.
(d) Blood's clothes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Blood leave Melody?

2. Who identifies Poison for Blood?

3. After Bobby's father leaves and Mama must make ends meet, how much does a hairstyle from Mama cost?

4. Pimps earn wages by psychological manipulation, but do NOT do what?

5. For how long does Blood go to jail after his conviction on the charges Pepper brings against him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are two ways in which the Melody incident is haunting for Blood in Chapter 7?

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

3. Why does Bobby/Slim say that from a pimp's perspective, looking back, Steve was an idiot and played the game with Mama all wrong?

4. 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?

5. In what two ways does Pepper influence Blood?

6. At the end of Chapter 4, Runt and Blood leave Milwaukee and go to Chicago to begin their new lives as pimp and prostitute together. Before he leaves though, Blood goes by Mama's house to tell her where he's going. How does this reflect his ambivalence towards his mother?

7. How does Pretty Preston reveal his true colors in Chapter 6?

8. 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?

9. Did Blood's "pep talk" (beating) at the end of Chapter 6 have an effect on Runt in Chapter 7?

10. 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?

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