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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Gunnar when he walks to the store to buy something for Yoshiko's craving?
(a) A helicopter shines a light on him.
(b) He gets lost.
(c) He is stopped by a gang.
(d) He runs into his sister.

2. How does Gunnar feel about a man's answer in Chapter Seven when he asks what is going on?
(a) Happy.
(b) Angry.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Confused.

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

4. What does Gunnar see when he leaves basketball practice in Chapter Seven?
(a) Nick's girlfriend looking for him.
(b) Psycho Loco bashing in a car window.
(c) A wrecked motocycle.
(d) Columns of smoke.

5. What do some people think Gunnar's speech at the rally does?
(a) Prompts people to commit suicide.
(b) Encourages minority students to graduate.
(c) Pushes people to burn the university.
(d) Causes unrest among minority students.

6. Who comes to ask Gunnar about his speech?
(a) The university administration.
(b) Nick.
(c) Reporters.
(d) His creative writing professor.

7. What is the meaning of concatenate?
(a) Take apart.
(b) Bring together.
(c) Play fair.
(d) A strange puzzle.

8. What does Nick say Gunnar forgot to factor in when Gunnar spoke of music being finite?
(a) The concept of time.
(b) Man's ingenuity.
(c) The number of different musical instruments.
(d) How long a note can be sustained.

9. What does Gunnar decide is the best approach to his speech?
(a) Dishonesty.
(b) Honesty.
(c) Humor.
(d) Sarcasm.

10. What does Gunnar's coach tell him one morning?
(a) Nick has killed himself.
(b) Nick is in a mental institution.
(c) The basketball team is going to state finals.
(d) Gunnar is suspended from play.

11. What does Gunnar say most people are not ready to do?
(a) Die for an idea.
(b) Take on the government.
(c) Graduate from college.
(d) Speak the truth.

12. What is preventing Gunnar from going to his mother's home?
(a) It has burned down.
(b) The police are there.
(c) She has sold it.
(d) His father is there.

13. Where do Gunnar and Yoshiko tell people she will deliver their baby?
(a) In Hillside Park.
(b) At the Hillside hospital.
(c) At the police station.
(d) In Reynier Park.

14. How does Gunnar mock the game played between Campesino and Hillside?
(a) Wears a Hillside uniform.
(b) Paints his face white.
(c) Paints a KKK on the basketball.
(d) Often throws the ball to Hillside players.

15. What major event occurred at the beginning of Chapter Seven?
(a) Gunnar wins the state championship.
(b) Gunnar is named most valuable player.
(c) The King incident officers were aquitted.
(d) Gunnar's father is shot on duty.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who performs the marriage ceremony?

3. What does Gunnar's father say he has to do in order for his looting to not be reported?

4. What does Gunnar challenge the United States government to do?

5. How does the bride get to the wedding?

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