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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Gunnar feel about the members of his creative writing class?
(a) He has no opinion of his classmates.
(b) Thinks they have no original thought.
(c) Thinks they are very talented.
(d) Thinks they might be second class writers.

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

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

4. Why does Gunnar walk into the water at the beach?
(a) To swim for exercise.
(b) It is hot.
(c) To kill himself.
(d) To go surfing.

5. 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) A crown.
(c) More money.
(d) A scepter.

6. What does the school guidance counselor find unbelievable about Gunnar?
(a) His shyness with girls.
(b) His height.
(c) His lack of school pride.
(d) His high SAT scores.

7. Why does Yosiko throw the class out of the apartment?
(a) She thinks Gunnar is getting a big head.
(b) She doesn't want to feed all of them.
(c) They don't like Chinese people.
(d) She tires of them.

8. What does Nick ask Gunnar when he brings up suicide?
(a) If the fire trucks are better in heaven.
(b) About the tallest buildings in Boston.
(c) How many pills one has to take.
(d) The best method of drowning.

9. What idea do Gunnar and Nick have about the riots?
(a) To find Psycho and do some real damage.
(b) To try and talk people into stopping.
(c) To loot some items themselves.
(d) To skip school the next day.

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

11. How is Gunnar's bride attained?
(a) She is a friend of Gunnar's sisters.
(b) She is a new recruit on the police force.
(c) She volunteers.
(d) She is purchased.

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

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

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

15. What is Gunnar asked his comments about?
(a) How long it will be before he publishes his poems.
(b) When his baby is due.
(c) The ways the government hurts blacks.
(d) The suicide of a black student union leader.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who arrives at Gunnar's house while the writing class is there?

2. Who crashes Gunnar's wedding?

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

4. Why was Gunnar wanted at this school?

5. What does Gunnar's coach tell him one morning?

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