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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Gunnar feel like in his neighborhood?
(a) A foreigner.
(b) A social reformer.
(c) A prophet.
(d) A clean-up boy.
2. Where does Gunnar's father work?
(a) The Los Angeles Police Department.
(b) He is a lawyer.
(c) In a health food restaurant.
(d) The school board.
3. Where does Coach Shimimoto learn to play basketball?
(a) At a summer camp.
(b) At his high school.
(c) From his father, a pro basketball player.
(d) While incarcerated in a camp during World War II.
4. What did Swen want to do for a living?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Politician.
(c) Professional dancer.
(d) Bank president.
5. What position does Compton have in the Civil War?
(a) Supply officer.
(b) Negotiator.
(c) Chief of Staff.
(d) Calvary captain.
6. For what does Eileen Litmus report Gunnar?
(a) Copying off her test.
(b) Passing notes.
(c) Pouring water over her head.
(d) Telling bad jokes.
7. What is the status of Gunnar's parents' relationship?
(a) Divorced.
(b) His parents never married.
(c) They are separated.
(d) They are married.
8. Why doesn't Compton return home one night?
(a) He dies during the trip.
(b) Lincoln wants him in Washington all the time.
(c) He runs away from home.
(d) He falls in love with a girl in Washington.
9. What have the Gun Totin' Hooligans decided to do to honor Pumpkin?
(a) Take care of his sisters.
(b) Buy his headstone.
(c) Attack another gang.
(d) Support his mother.
10. For what is Swen Kaufman known?
(a) The only black man to move to the South from the North.
(b) Leading a calvry charge during the Civil War.
(c) Having 45 children with two wives.
(d) Inventing the peanut grinder.
11. What did the Gun Totin' Hooligans carry in their early days instead of guns?
(a) Switchblades.
(b) Chains.
(c) Staffs.
(d) Blow darts and spears.
12. How does Gunnar feel about the police in his new area?
(a) He thinks they are good cops.
(b) He thinks they may need more education.
(c) He holds them in contempt.
(d) He believes they work hard.
13. What happens after more children arrive at the swings?
(a) The swing set is pushed over.
(b) Betty knocks Gunnar out.
(c) A pick-up game of basketball starts.
(d) The Kaufman children are beaten.
14. Why is the audience shocked by Gunnar's speech?
(a) He recites from the wrong play.
(b) He modifies Shakespeare.
(c) He does all of his Shakespearean speech in rap.
(d) He does the entire speech in Spanish.
15. Why did Gunnar get in trouble sometimes at the beach?
(a) For playing pranks.
(b) For being black.
(c) For getting in fists fights.
(d) For fishing off the pier.
Short Answer Questions
1. How tall has Gunnar become by his first year in high school?
2. What is one thing about Gunnar that shocks a young black man Gunnar stops for directions?
3. What does Euripides do after he taunts some British soldiers?
4. What topic do Gunnar and his friends discuss one night after leaving a club?
5. What class does Gunnar chose for his second semester?
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