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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gunnar say The White Boy Shuffle is?
(a) His ideas on African American culture.
(b) His memoir.
(c) His stand-up comedy routines.
(d) His ideas on white American culture.

2. What does Gunnar feel like in his neighborhood?
(a) A prophet.
(b) A social reformer.
(c) A clean-up boy.
(d) A foreigner.

3. What does Gunnar notice when he looks at the photographs in the display cases on his first day of school?
(a) How the racial demographics have changed over the years.
(b) That the students in the first years of the school look older.
(c) How much the clothing has changed in fifty years.
(d) How only the good looking students are shown.

4. Where do Gunnar and Nick have lunch sometimes to escape the school crowds?
(a) In the gym.
(b) At the library.
(c) The coach's office.
(d) Outside in the bleachers around the track.

5. What do the children think will happen to them at the park?
(a) They will be bored.
(b) They will get hurt on the basketball court.
(c) They will make friends.
(d) They will get beaten.

6. Where does Coach Shimimoto learn to play basketball?
(a) At his high school.
(b) While incarcerated in a camp during World War II.
(c) From his father, a pro basketball player.
(d) At a summer camp.

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

8. What is the neighborhood at the top of the hill from Gunnar's neighborhood?
(a) Cheviot Heights.
(b) Waldenburg.
(c) Wayneville.
(d) Hollywood Heights.

9. What type of families live in Gunnar's new neighborhood?
(a) Low income.
(b) Black upper class.
(c) Mixed black and white middle class.
(d) White middle class.

10. What does Gunnar's mother tell him to go get after they arrive at their new house?
(a) A haircut.
(b) Breakfast for the family.
(c) A city bus pass.
(d) Some new clothes.

11. How does Gunnar feel about organized basketball?
(a) Proud.
(b) Indifferent.
(c) Angry.
(d) Arrogant.

12. What does the receptionist tell Gunnar his aptitude suggests?
(a) He should become a chef.
(b) He would make a good CIA operative.
(c) He would make a good librarian.
(d) He should be a school teacher.

13. What does Gunnar ask his mother to get him?
(a) Some books on jazz.
(b) A new stereo.
(c) Basketball shoes.
(d) An Iphone.

14. What does Gunnar think people who do not play basketball emphasizes?
(a) Winning for the school.
(b) How many baskets each player makes in a game.
(c) Whether the players pass their school subjects.
(d) The personalities of the players.

15. With whom are Gunnar and Nick's drama team competing in a tournament?
(a) Other black schools in the district.
(b) Teams from other states.
(c) Teams from mostly wealthy, white schools.
(d) Mostly teams from lower class white schools.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position does Compton have in the Civil War?

2. What have the Gun Totin' Hooligans decided to do to honor Pumpkin?

3. With what part of playing basketball does Nick have a problem?

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

5. For what is Franz assigned on the plantation where he lives?

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