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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 Blood do first upon waking up in Chapter 7?
(a) Get high.
(b) Eat breakfast.
(c) Get drunk.
(d) Abuse Runt.

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

3. What does Glass Top provide for Sweet Jones, other pimps, and eventually Blood?
(a) Drugs.
(b) Gambling tips.
(c) Tips on the local police.
(d) Women to work for them.

4. Where/How is Bobby's Mama working when he comes home from University?
(a) As a white woman's maid.
(b) In the home of an old white man.
(c) In a hair salon.
(d) As a babysitter.

5. In later life, Bobby is told that being a pimp demands a certain personality trait. What is it?
(a) Addiction to sexual relations with women.
(b) Disrespect for women.
(c) Innate desire to hurt or kill his mother.
(d) Natural inclination towards violence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the time span of Chapter 7?

2. Getting started on his first "real" night of pimping with Runt, Blood muses on how he is going to be successful in a white man's world. What does he think will accomplish this?

3. What does Blood buy Preston as a form of payment?

4. Blood is still very new at the pimping game and has to constantly remind himself of what?

5. After returning home from University, Bobby takes advantage of Mama's frequent absence from home and becomes friends with who?

Short Essay Questions

1. Another good name for Chapter 2 might be "Down a Dark Alley." What are three ways in which this name would be appropriate?

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

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

4. In Chapter 4, in spite of his quick score with Runt, what is Blood constantly reminding himself and why?

5. 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?

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

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. In spite of having worked as a pimp for less than a full day in Chicago, Blood nevertheless provides Runt with a full set of "rules for whoring" in the neighborhood. Why does he do this and where would he have gotten these rules?

10. How does it speak to Blood's salesmanship that he is able to score Runt as his own working girl after such a short period of time?

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