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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. For their first "formal" meeting, how does Glass Top introduce Blood to Sweet Jones?
(a) From his car.
(b) As his son.
(c) As his nephew.
(d) With a joke.

2. Bobby now has a new street name, Macking Youngblood or "Blood". Who gives Blood this name?
(a) Iceberg Slim.
(b) Weeping Shorty.
(c) Diamond Cat.
(d) Golden Jive.

3. Why did Bobby and his family (biological mother and father) leave Chicago?
(a) Because his mother was in trouble with her boss.
(b) Because his mother caught his father cheating with another woman.
(c) Because his mother caught his father stealing from their workplace.
(d) Because his father was in trouble with the police.

4. Who gives Bobby the IQ test confirming his genius level IQ?
(a) His parole officer.
(b) The warden.
(c) Pepper.
(d) Mama.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does what happens to Oscar affect Bobby's later actions in prison?

2. What happens to Oscar while in Reformatory?

3. Who is Pretty Preston?

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

5. What is a "Cop and Blow" scheme?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. 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?

5. 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?

6. How does Blood show his courage and psychological insight in his dealings with Sweet Jones in Chapter 6?

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

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

9. Besides giving him his first street name, how does Weeping Shorty influence Blood's career as a pimp?

10. 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?

(see the answer keys)

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