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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do Gunnar and Nick and some other boys do at school on Monday?
(a) Find some girls for dates for the next weekend.
(b) Lock the principal in his office.
(c) Write graffiti in the hallway.
(d) Scale the fence and go off school property.

3. What is Gunnar's mother tired of seeing her children do all the time?
(a) Make fun of the neighbors.
(b) Stay in the house.
(c) Get into trouble.
(d) Fight with each other.

4. What does Gunnar do before they move?
(a) Wrecks the house.
(b) Steals the car keys so they can't move.
(c) Gets kicked out of school.
(d) Writes all his friends a letter.

5. What does Gunnar think his school does to race?
(a) It has no bearing on race.
(b) It makes it so unimportant it becomes important.
(c) Makes it irrelevant.
(d) Makes it very important.

6. How many siblings does Gunnar have?
(a) One.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

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

8. Who does Gunnar push on the swings at the park?
(a) Nicole.
(b) Veronica.
(c) Betty.
(d) Susan.

9. What was Euripides Kaufman's position in life?
(a) The servant in a New York mansion.
(b) He was a Baptist minister.
(c) A slave in Boston.
(d) He owned a farm in Pennsylvania.

10. What is the status of Gunnar's parents' relationship?
(a) His parents never married.
(b) They are separated.
(c) Divorced.
(d) They are married.

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

12. With what part of playing basketball does Nick have a problem?
(a) Obeying the coach.
(b) Arguing with the referee.
(c) Fouling other players.
(d) Attention from the other students.

13. What does Gunnar tell a girl about the eye chart?
(a) The bottom line is FECES.
(b) He told her about the third line, not the bottom one.
(c) They didn't check his eyes.
(d) The bottom line is written on the floor.

14. What is the name of the neighborhood to which Gunnar and his family have moved?
(a) Las Casa.
(b) Hillside.
(c) Riverview.
(d) Woodbridge.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the racial mix of Gunnar's school?

2. What does the receptionist tell Gunnar his aptitude suggests?

3. What must Gunnar do in school during Black History Month?

4. What happens when two girls charge the swings where Gunnar and his sisters are?

5. Why can Gunnar walk the neighborhood without fear?

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