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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rusty-James have difficulty doing?
(a) Talking.
(b) Listening.
(c) Walking.
(d) Remembering.

2. When school lets out, where does Rusty-James wait for Patty?
(a) At a bus stop.
(b) At her house.
(c) At the corner.
(d) At the park.

3. What does Rusty-James say he has been doing for the last few years?
(a) Going to school.
(b) Bumming around.
(c) Working.
(d) Sleeping.

4. Where is Rusty-James' apartment?
(a) Over a dry cleaner.
(b) Above a restaurant.
(c) Next to a grocery store.
(d) In the ghetto.

5. What does Rusty-James think the picture of Motorcycle Boy resembles?
(a) A drawing.
(b) A photograph.
(c) A rebel.
(d) A painting.

6. When Rusty-James goes home from school, who does he meet on the staircase?
(a) Patty.
(b) His father.
(c) Cassandra.
(d) Motorcycle Boy.

7. Why does Rusty-James not want to talk about the good old days?
(a) He does not think they are good days.
(b) He misses them.
(c) He hates them.
(d) He cannot remember them.

8. What other character attends Cleveland High School?
(a) Biff.
(b) B.J.
(c) Midget.
(d) Steve.

9. According to Rusty-James, in what kind of classes is he enrolled?
(a) Algebra classes.
(b) Advanced classes.
(c) College prep classes.
(d) The dumb classes.

10. What one thing so worries Rusty-James that he cannot think about his future?
(a) Cars.
(b) Money.
(c) Fighting.
(d) Grades.

11. In Chapter 6, who does Rusty-James visit when he arrives at school?
(a) Patty.
(b) The nurse.
(c) Mr. Harrigan.
(d) The principal.

12. Where does Motorcycle Boy say he has been for the last two weeks?
(a) Reformatory.
(b) California.
(c) Church.
(d) Memphis.

13. What does Patty's mother do for a living?
(a) She is a cop.
(b) She is a nurse.
(c) She is a teacher.
(d) She is a waitress.

14. Who ispresent at the fight five years ago when Rusty-James got his scar?
(a) The police.
(b) His father.
(c) Steve.
(d) Motorcycle Boy.

15. What does Rusty-James do the morning after he has gone to the lake with Smokey?
(a) Sleeps until noon.
(b) Changes clothes.
(c) Drinks a cup of coffee.
(d) Eats breakfast.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one thing Rusty-James thinks he needs if he goes to Cleveland High?

2. What does Patty do when her mother is at work?

3. Whose gang is waiting at the end of the vacant lot?

4. Who does Rusty-James love for certain?

5. What is the name of the skinny, tall kid who tells Rusty-James that Biff is going to kill him?

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