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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gunnar do before they move?
(a) Steals the car keys so they can't move.
(b) Wrecks the house.
(c) Gets kicked out of school.
(d) Writes all his friends a letter.

2. What issue does Gunnar's elementary school take to absurd levels?
(a) Multicultural issues.
(b) Pacifism.
(c) Obeying authority.
(d) Being ready for college.

3. What emotion does Swen inspire in the people around him?
(a) Confusion.
(b) Joy.
(c) Hate.
(d) Love.

4. What does Gunnar say The White Boy Shuffle is?
(a) His ideas on African American culture.
(b) His stand-up comedy routines.
(c) His memoir.
(d) His ideas on white American culture.

5. What do the Gun Totin' Hooligans do to avenge Pumpkin?
(a) Kill the guy that murdered him.
(b) Burn up a store.
(c) Vandalize the hospital.
(d) Attack another gang.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Gunnar go to avoid trouble?

2. What do Gunnar and Nick and some other boys do at school on Monday?

3. What does Gunnar realize when the other students arrive in his first period class?

4. To where does Gunnar's family move?

5. What does Gunnar like to do most at home?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Gunnar's father work, what does he do and what does Gunnar notice when he visits his father at work?

2. How does Gunnar feel about organized basketball and why? What changes for Nick and Gunnar because of basketball and how do they deal with the change?

3. What does Nick do to handle some of the attention directed at him and how does that affect Gunnar?

4. What does Gunnar think about his school's emphasis and what does he say contradicts the school's sensitivity?

5. Why does Gunnar's mother send her children outside and where do they go? In what kind of condition is the place?

6. What does Gunnar's elementary school emphasize?

7. How does the Gun Totin' Hooligans decide to avenge Pumpkin and why is Gunnar involved? How does their plan work out?

8. What does Psycho do to get Gunnar to dance and how does their time at dances often end?

9. What happens when Gunnar is pushing his sister Nicole on the swing?

10. Why did Rolf go to a white high school and what happens to him in Vietnam?

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