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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who steps out of the darkness with a tire iron?
(a) Motorcycle Boy.
(b) Smokey.
(c) One black and one white guy.
(d) Biff.

2. What does Steve's father do when Steve comes home after 10 o'clock?
(a) He leeaves.
(b) He yells at Steve.
(c) He grounds Steve.
(d) He beats Steve.

3. According to Steve, what "set off" his dad after he comes home at six in the morning?
(a) Steve's hangover.
(b) Steve's denial.
(c) The orange makeup on his shirt from the girl he met the previous night.
(d) Steve's attitude.

4. Who does Rusty-James punch on the street in Chapter 8?
(a) An old man.
(b) A teenager.
(c) Steve.
(d) Motorcycle Boy.

5. To what is Motorcycle Boy referring when he says, "...is like a beautiful wild kid on heroin, high as a kite and thinking she's on top of the world, not knowing she's dying, not believing it even if you show her the marks."
(a) Rusty-James.
(b) Cassandra.
(c) His mother.
(d) California.

6. Back in the present on the beach, what does Steve tell Rusty-James he has learned?
(a) Make up your mind and work hard to get there.
(b) Make up your mind and use people until you get what you want.
(c) Make life easy by giving in.
(d) Give up and quit trying.

7. What does Steve do when he notices what is playing on the screen at the movie?
(a) He throws up.
(b) He runs out.
(c) He grins.
(d) He laughs.

8. What happens to Rusty-James after he tells the doctor he is not going to the hospital?
(a) He goes anyway.
(b) Everything turns gray and a ringing starts in his ears.
(c) He passes out.
(d) He starts to bleed.

9. About what does Rusty-James tell everyone at Benny's?
(a) His wild night across the river.
(b) His expulsion from school.
(c) His father's old profession.
(d) His head injury.

10. What does Steve say Rusty-James would do to the people in the neighborhood if he went back?
(a) Sue them.
(b) Shoot them.
(c) Beat them.
(d) Give them a heart attack.

11. To whose house does Rusty-James go after leaving the drugstore?
(a) Smokey's.
(b) Patty's.
(c) His own home.
(d) Steve's.

12. Who does Rusty-James say he will look like when he gets older?
(a) Motorcycle Boy.
(b) His father.
(c) His mother.
(d) James Dean.

13. After six years, how does Steve feel about seeing Rusty-James again?
(a) It is like seeing his best friend again.
(b) It is like seeing his dad again.
(c) It is like seeing Motorcycle Boy again.
(d) It is like seeing his life again.

14. Who does Steve say is "just like someone out of a book?"
(a) His father.
(b) Motorcycle Boy.
(c) Rusty-James.
(d) Cassandra.

15. In Chapter 7, whom does Steve worry Rusty-James will become?
(a) A criminal.
(b) Motorcycle Boy.
(c) Rusty-James' father.
(d) A bum.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Rusty-James spend the rest of the day after he leaves Steve's?

2. After leaving the skin flick, to what kind of bar do Rusty-James, Steve, and Motorcycle Boy go?

3. In what does Steve believe?

4. What does Rusty-James do when Smokey tells him he would not be president of the gangs?

5. Who shows up and meets Smokey at Benny's?

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