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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Gunnar get his assignments from class?
(a) In class.
(b) An assistant coach collects them from the teachers.
(c) He collects them at the principal's office.
(d) He picks them up at the library.

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

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

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

5. Why was Gunnar wanted at this school?
(a) It was a favor to his father.
(b) Because of his SAT scores.
(c) To improve the basketball team.
(d) To help improve the racial mix.

6. Who performs the marriage ceremony?
(a) The Baptist minister.
(b) The FedX driver.
(c) The UPS driver.
(d) Gunnar's mother.

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

8. Where does a recruiter from Harvard take Gunnar?
(a) To the space center.
(b) To a five star hotel.
(c) To dinner.
(d) To a Harvard football game.

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

10. What does Gunnar learn the recruiter from Harvard will get if Gunnar signs with him?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Another year contract with Harvard as an independent consultant.
(c) A large bonus.
(d) The respect of his colleagues.

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

12. Where do Yoshiko and Gunnar go from the beach?
(a) To Gunnar's older sister's house.
(b) To a cheap motel.
(c) To her parents' house.
(d) To the high school.

13. What does Nick see as the problem with the Boston fire trucks?
(a) They drive too fast.
(b) They are not painted red.
(c) They have the wrong kind of siren.
(d) They are too big.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yoshiko tell Gunnar about herself one morning?

2. What does Gunnar say to Psycho when he offers Gunnar some valuable loot?

3. What major event occurred at the beginning of Chapter Seven?

4. Why does Yosiko throw the class out of the apartment?

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

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