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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. How many classes does Gunnar attend during his time at Boston University?
(a) One.
(b) All of his classes.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Four.

2. What is Ms. Kim doing when Gunnar arrives at her store?
(a) Running the cash register.
(b) Holding off a crowd with a shotgun.
(c) Asking some youths to throw Molotov cocktails in her store.
(d) Crying because her store is on fire.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Gunnar's mother lend him following the wedding?

3. What does Nick ask Gunnar when he brings up suicide?

4. What does Gunnar learn the recruiter from Harvard will get if Gunnar signs with him?

5. What happens to Gunnar when he walks to the store to buy something for Yoshiko's craving?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who crashes Gunnar's wedding and what happens between them and his bride?

2. What does Coach Shimimoto do and say when he keeps the team longer at practice in Chapter Seven?

3. Who arranges a marriage for Gunnar and how does he come up with a bride? Where does the wedding take place?

4. What does Gunnar's creative writing class want him to do?

5. What subject does Nick bring up to Gunnar and what does Nick ask Gunnar?

6. Where does Gunnar find refuge in his new school, how does he get his assignments and why has he been brought to that school?

7. What does Gunnar's coach tell him about Nick and what does the coach have for him? What does Gunnar do?

8. When does Gunnar's wedding take place and who performs the ceremony?

9. What does the recruiter from Boston University do to woo Gunnar?

10. What does Gunnar decide is the best approach to speaking and what does he talk about?

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