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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 9 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does the narrator use as a term for drugs?
(a) Donkey.
(b) Mule.
(c) Zebra.
(d) Horse.

2. Which of the following does the narrator use as a term for drugs?
(a) Smack.
(b) Good-good.
(c) Ease.
(d) Dope.

3. What subject does the narrator teach?
(a) Algebra.
(b) Trigonometry.
(c) Geometry.
(d) Calculus.

4. Along what street do the narrator and Sonny travel?
(a) 128th.
(b) 110th.
(c) 116th.
(d) 122nd.

5. In what season does the story begin?
(a) Summer.
(b) Fall.
(c) Spring.
(d) Winter.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Sonny when his father dies?

2. Along what avenue do the narrator and Sonny travel?

3. How much money does the narrator give Sonny’s old acquaintance?

4. In what branch of the military had the narrator served?

5. At what level of school does the narrator teach?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why had the narrator not known he had an uncle?

2. For what is Sonny arrested?

3. Why does the narrator note that Sonny and his father had not gotten along?

4. Why does the narrator note being glad of Isabel’s presence when he brings Sonny home?

5. What outcome does Sonny’s old acquaintance foresee for him?

6. Why does the narrator posit his students are full of rage?

7. Why does the narrator note having taken up residence where he did?

8. What does the narrator note would happen on Sunday evenings with his parents when someone turned on a light?

9. What are the narrator’s earliest memories of Sonny?

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