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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. Where is Rusty-James at the beginning of chapter two?
(a) At a restaurant.
(b) At home.
(c) At Benny's.
(d) At school.

2. What has Cassandra done previously at Rusty-James' school?
(a) Serve food.
(b) Student teach.
(c) Clean classrooms.
(d) Drive school buses.

3. Who is Anita?
(a) Biff's girlfriend.
(b) Steve's girlfriend.
(c) Biff's sister.
(d) Rusty-James' friend.

4. Where does Rusty-James find Motorcycle Boy after he leaves Patty in Chapter 6?
(a) At a drugstore.
(b) At the bridge.
(c) At Benny's.
(d) At home.

5. Who does Rusty-James love for certain?
(a) Patty.
(b) The Motorcycle Boy.
(c) Steve.
(d) His father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Rusty-James doing at the onset of the novel?

2. Who ispresent at the fight five years ago when Rusty-James got his scar?

3. When Rusty-James goes home from school, who does he meet on the staircase?

4. Where does Motorcycle Boy say he has been for the last two weeks?

5. What does Rusty-James do the morning after he has gone to the lake with Smokey?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Smokey believe that no one will follow Rusty-James into a knife fight?

2. Why does Steve worry about everyone coming to witness the fight between Rusty-James and Biff?

3. Why does Rusty-James not understand that Patty is mad that he fooed around with another girl at the lake?

4. Why is Rusty-James upset that Steve has been beaten up?

5. What is the significance of Rusty-James' paying back money he has borrowed?

6. Why does Rusty-James dislike Cassandra?

7. What does Motorcycle Boy mean when he tells Steve, "loyalty is his only vice?"

8. What does Rusty-James' father do when he gets home in Chapter 5?

9. What is the significance of Motorcycle Boy's comparing the gang violence to playing "Cowboys and Indians?"

10. What does Rusty-James' father mean when he says, "Our marriage was a classic example of a preacher marrying an atheist, thinking to make a convert?"

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