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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. What causes tensions to be particularly high at the gym in Chapter 10?
(a) The cold.
(b) The heat.
(c) The snow.
(d) The loud noise.

2. When Alfred returns home in Chapter 6, who questions him regarding his whereabouts and asks if he has been out all night?
(a) Major.
(b) Pearl.
(c) Henry.
(d) James.

3. What does Alfred remember on his way home that he wishes he could warn his best friend about in Chapter 1?
(a) The bulletproof windows.
(b) The security cameras.
(c) The shotgun under the counter.
(d) The silent alarm.

4. Who leaves the gym in shame after a confrontation in Chapter 6?
(a) Red.
(b) Bud.
(c) Lou.
(d) Henry.

5. Where did Robert Lipsyte attend college?
(a) Columbia University.
(b) Rutgers University.
(c) New York University.
(d) Harvard University.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a literary device in which an author indistinctly suggests certain plot developments that might come later in the story?

2. In Chapter 6, Henry eventually shows up, telling Alfred that he had to go downtown to pick up something for whom?

3. Who stops Alfred to question him in Chapter 5?

4. Alfred finds out that the fight was called off against whose wishes in Chapter 7?

5. What does Alfred do in order to erase the negative thoughts from his mind in Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Alfred feel about the actions of James in Chapter 1? Why?

2. What do Major and his gang tell Alfred when he arrives home in Chapter 8? What is Alfred's response?

3. Who is James with when Alfred finds him in Chapter 1? What are these characters like?

4. In what ways has Alfred overcome obstacles and fears in Chapter 6?

5. Where is Alfred in the beginning of Chapter 1? Where does he go to look for James? How does Alfred feel about James?

6. What causes the raised tensions at the gym in Chapter 10? How does Alfred come to view the gym?

7. What is juxtaposed against Alfred's home life in Chapter 4? What contrast is illustrated?

8. Who encounters Alfred and encourages him to stay at the gym in Chapter 6? What does this character tell him?

9. Discuss the conflicts in Chapter 6. What does Alfred learn from them?

10. Why does Alfred not back down against the thugs in Chapter 8? How does he feel about this interaction?

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