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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Coach Shimimoto do at basketball practice in Chapter Seven?
(a) Cuss out Gunnar.
(b) End the practice early.
(c) Keep the team longer than usual.
(d) Have the players form a friendship circle.

2. What does Gunnar say he is ready to do?
(a) Burn up the university.
(b) Die.
(c) Graduate.
(d) Lead an armed rebellion.

3. Where is the wedding reception held?
(a) In the backyard.
(b) At his father's house.
(c) At the high school.
(d) At the police ball room.

4. Why don't Gunnar and Yoshiko have a social life in Boston?
(a) They are not white.
(b) They have no money.
(c) They find nothing enjoyable or familiar.
(d) They don't like Boston food.

5. What does Gunnar do when the introductory speaker is talking?
(a) Raises a political sign in the air.
(b) Openly shows his contempt.
(c) Supports him with clapping.
(d) Falls asleep.

6. What does Gunnar's father say he has to do in order for his looting to not be reported?
(a) Attend a military prep school.
(b) Get a job.
(c) Report to the police station everday for six months.
(d) Agree to attend El Campesino Real High School.

7. Where do Gunnar and Yoshiko go first after the wedding?
(a) To a basketball game.
(b) To the mall.
(c) To the amusement park.
(d) To the library.

8. Why does Gunnar go to Ms. Kim's store?
(a) To get something to drink.
(b) To see if she is okay.
(c) To break a window.
(d) To loot the store.

9. What does Gunnar do when he can't find any extracurricular activities he wants to do?
(a) Starts playing basketball.
(b) Decides to be a loner.
(c) Drops out of school.
(d) Publishes a book of poems.

10. What does Gunnar say he was advocating in his speech?
(a) Getting high government officials to commit suicide.
(b) His own suicide.
(c) Dissolving the lines between races.
(d) Holding the black family together.

11. What does Gunnar, in a sarcastic fashion, think he should get when people say he is a new black leader?
(a) A black leather jacket.
(b) More money.
(c) A crown.
(d) A scepter.

12. What is the rally to which Gunnar is invited to speak protesting?
(a) The poor creative writing department.
(b) The food in the cafeteria.
(c) The scarcity of black students.
(d) BU granting honorary doctorate to an African politician.

13. What does Psycho Loco ask the Boston University recruiter?
(a) If Boston University has a racial quota.
(b) If Gunnar will be paid a salary.
(c) About housing for married students.
(d) Whether Psycho can also get a scholarship.

14. Who crashes Gunnar's wedding?
(a) Sally and Mary.
(b) Penny and Felicia.
(c) Kathy and Linda.
(d) Betty and Veronica.

15. Who arranges a marriage for Gunnar?
(a) Psycho Loco.
(b) Gunnar's mother.
(c) Nick.
(d) Gunnar's sisters.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gunnar feel about a man's answer in Chapter Seven when he asks what is going on?

2. Why does Gunnar walk into the water at the beach?

3. How does Gunnar feel about the members of his creative writing class?

4. Where do Gunnar and Yoshiko tell people she will deliver their baby?

5. What idea do Gunnar and Nick have about the riots?

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