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

2. For what does Bobby do his first time in jail?
(a) Attempting to pimp his girlfriend.
(b) Being drunk in public.
(c) Beating up his girlfriend.
(d) Attempting to rob a convenience store.

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

4. What is Chris's former profession?
(a) She has never worked.
(b) Brothel owner.
(c) Prostitute.
(d) School teacher.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the primary enticements for Blood in the life and career of a pimp?

2. Who does Blood decide can get him a positive introduction to Sweet Jones so he can get what he wants from him?

3. At what age does Bobby graduate high school?

4. Who says (s)he "sees Justice has her eyes blindfolded to hide the dollar bill signs that are there in the place of eyeballs"?

5. What is the time span of Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. Thinking about the content and purpose of Chapter 5 in the story, what does the title "The Jungle Fauna" mean? What or where is the Jungle? What or who is the fauna? (When thinking about the Jungle, remember the title of Chapter 2, "First Steps into the Jungle.")

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

4. 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?

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

6. Steve is never given a last name. What might be some reasons for this in the author's mind?

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

8. Describe the con that Party Time and Bobby work on white men.

9. 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?

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

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