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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. How does Blood know the things he knows about Sweet Jones (like his essential motivation)?
(a) Sweet Jones enjoys sharing his life story and feelings with Blood.
(b) Blood intuits most of them.
(c) Runt found out by talking to his working girls.
(d) Glass Top told him.

2. What is different about his meeting with Runt after her night's work in Chapter 7?
(a) She is not drunk.
(b) She has worked well and earned enough money.
(c) She has dyed her hair.
(d) She came home on time.

3. How are Runt and Blood traveling in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) In Blood's brand new convertible.
(b) By stowing away on a train.
(c) In Runt's yellow Ford car.
(d) By hitchiking.

4. What does Sweet Jones say that he hates about Blood during their first formal meeting?
(a) Blood's constant grinning.
(b) Blood's attitude towards pimping.
(c) Blood's clothes.
(d) Blood's attitude towarrds him (Sweet Jones).

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After beating Runt with a wire, how does Blood respond to his own reaction?

3. Who is Blood told is the most successful pimp in the area (Chapter 5 setting)?

4. Pepper turns the tables on the con Blood attempts and accuses him of what?

5. Chapter 9 begins Day 4 for Blood in his new life as a professional pimp. What happened to Runt the night before?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Chapter 9 title "Butterfly" refer to Chris?

2. 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?

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

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

5. Does it seem somewhat perverse that Blood whips Runt with a wire and then gets depressed when she leaves and doesn't come back by her usual time in Chapter 11? What does this say about the nature of an abusive relationship?

6. In what two ways does Pepper influence Blood?

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

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

9. Why do Blood and Sweet Jones never discuss their differing opinions on white society?

10. Blood gets up on his second day in Chicago and immediately gets high before going out for the night in Chapter 7. How does this sequence of events foreshadow a potential for backfire in Blood's plan to befriend Glass Top to get to Sweet Jones?

(see the answer keys)

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