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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Gunnar get in trouble sometimes at the beach?
(a) For getting in fists fights.
(b) For playing pranks.
(c) For fishing off the pier.
(d) For being black.

2. What emotion does Swen inspire in the people around him?
(a) Love.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Joy.
(d) Hate.

3. Why is the audience shocked by Gunnar's speech?
(a) He recites from the wrong play.
(b) He modifies Shakespeare.
(c) He does the entire speech in Spanish.
(d) He does all of his Shakespearean speech in rap.

4. What did the Gun Totin' Hooligans carry in their early days instead of guns?
(a) Blow darts and spears.
(b) Switchblades.
(c) Chains.
(d) Staffs.

5. For what is Swen Kaufman known?
(a) Leading a calvry charge during the Civil War.
(b) The only black man to move to the South from the North.
(c) Inventing the peanut grinder.
(d) Having 45 children with two wives.

6. What does Gunnar tell the officers when they ask whether he is involved in any gangs?
(a) He says he quit last week.
(b) He asks what a gang is.
(c) He's in the Gang of Four.
(d) He says he's in the Crispy Critters.

7. Why do two police officers come to Gunnar's house a couple of weeks after they move there?
(a) To talk to his mother about his father.
(b) To bring a fire code sticker.
(c) To see that the family has settled in well.
(d) To warn Gunnar about illegal activities.

8. What class does Gunnar chose for his second semester?
(a) Home economics.
(b) History of the Southern White.
(c) Race relations.
(d) Drama.

9. What does Psycho Loco do when an opposing player strikes Nick during a basketball game?
(a) Hits the player in the face.
(b) Jumps the referee.
(c) Threatens the entire team with a shotgun.
(d) Yells obscenities.

10. What did the Gun Totin' Hooligans do together originally?
(a) They were a group of dancers.
(b) They all played football together.
(c) They were a rap band.
(d) They rode motorcycles.

11. What inspires Swen to create a new dance?
(a) Falling in love.
(b) Listening to Abraham Lincoln make a speech.
(c) Hearing slaves singing.
(d) Seeing his first born.

12. Who comes to the school to give health examinations?
(a) Federal Health Department staff.
(b) Volunteer parents who are in the health care profession.
(c) City health workers.
(d) A volunteer doctor with nurses.

13. What kind of ritual do the Gun Totin' Hooligans have to honor dead members?
(a) Lighing a fire and burning their uniform.
(b) Spraying their name on the freeway underpass.
(c) Wearing black head bands for a week.
(d) A drinking ritual.

14. What two girls never take no for an answer from Gunnar?
(a) Sally and Mary.
(b) Betty and Veronica.
(c) Kathy and Linda.
(d) Penny and Felicia.

15. What gang members find him in the store?
(a) The Hollywood Six Guns.
(b) Gun Totin' Hooligans.
(c) The Blood Answer.
(d) Hell's Inmates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gunnar notice when he looks at the photographs in the display cases on his first day of school?

2. What does Gunnar think his school does to race?

3. Where does Wolfgang have a job?

4. What does Gunnar say the majority of the playground jokes concern?

5. What is the name of the neighborhood to which Gunnar and his family have moved?

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