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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 are the primary enticements for Blood in the life and career of a pimp?
(a) Power and easy money.
(b) Sex and easy money.
(c) Power and women.
(d) Easy living and waking up late.

2. Instead of attending University and graduating with prestige, Blood has done what with his educational choices?
(a) Enrolled in a pimping class via jail.
(b) Skipped too many classes.
(c) Learned how to score drugs.
(d) Enrolled in wife-beating 101.

3. What does Chris do for the first time with Blood?
(a) Takes heroin.
(b) Talks about her life.
(c) Defies her husband.
(d) Takes cocaine.

4. Who teaches Blood the sexual tricks he will continue to use later in his pimping career?
(a) Pepper.
(b) Weeping Shorty.
(c) Pepper's husband.
(d) Mama.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How are Runt and Blood traveling in the beginning of Chapter 5?

3. After Blood runs away from her, Melody is in a position to do what Pepper once did to Blood, hence his fear. What is it?

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

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In what two ways does Pepper influence Blood?

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

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

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

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 is Bobby "torn from the nest"?

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

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

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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