View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would be the likely ending to Slim's pimping lifestyle?
(a) Drug overdose.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Death on the streets.
(d) Death in jail.

2. Where does Slim escape to from the State Workforce?
(a) Montana.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Minneapolis.
(d) Indiana.

3. Why doesn't Blood flinch when the gunshot nearly hits him?
(a) He didn't hear or see it happen.
(b) He's too drugged to react.
(c) He knows the man wouldn't really shoot him.
(d) He's extremely cool under pressure.

4. What has happened to Pretty Preston since Slim ran away to hide from the FBI?
(a) He has started pimping again to take over Slim's spot.
(b) He lost his job and moved to Las Vegas.
(c) He was shot by Sweet Jones.
(d) He died of frostbite.

5. Where is Slim when Pearl Harbor is bombed?
(a) Laying in bed with Runt.
(b) Sweet Jones' penthouse.
(c) Getting high with Glass Top in his hotel room.
(d) At the Roost.

Short Answer Questions

1. Beginning in 1939, how often does Slim get a new car?

2. What does "No Thumbs" Helen specialize in besides turning tricks?

3. What kind of car does Slim buy?

4. How long does Slim spend in detox in Seattle?

5. Who does Slim team up with to execute his plan after getting out of Leavenworth?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Slim working and spending his days now that he's off the drugs and living in Seattle in Chapter 21?

2. Twice in Chapter 19, Slim turns to family for help. To whom does he go and for what?

3. Slim has two near-murder experiences in Chapter 20. Who does he nearly kill, how and why doesn't he?

4. Slim's story about the State Workforce seems a little light on truth in Chapter 18. What are some elements that seem perhaps questionable?

5. Why does Blood begin to feel like a real pimp in Chapter 13?

6. Mavis is a female drug dealer and one of the few women in the story who is not a prostitute. How does Mavis being female make her an appropriate target for Slim's robbery attempt in Chapter 17?

7. How does Slim's reliance on drugs catch up with him in the end of chapter 15?

8. How does his mother's death in Chapter 22 affect Slim's life?

9. Why is image, represented by material things, so important to a pimp?

10. How has Leroy been spending his years when Slim runs across him again in prison?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 985 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample