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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. Who meets Mann in town?
(a) Peewee
(b) Bob
(c) Soldiers
(d) Grannie

2. Who plies their trade at the hotel Wright works at?
(a) White prostitutes
(b) Drug dealers
(c) Gangsters
(d) Salesmen

3. Who is the main character in this chapter?
(a) Lester
(b) Buck
(c) Big Boy
(d) Bobo

4. Why do the boys make up words?
(a) To develop a new language
(b) To confuse people
(c) To find rhymes
(d) To make jokes

5. Which member of the Heartfield family answers Brinkley's call?
(a) Mr. Heartfield
(b) The Heartfields' son
(c) The Heartfields' daughter
(d) Mrs. Heartfield

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wright see on the floor in the back room?

2. What rank is the man that gives Mann an ax?

3. What is the name of the family the soldiers ask Mann to save?

4. What is Jim's job?

5. What phrase is Wright worried the white man in the elevator will find insulting if he said it?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Big Boy and Bobo get home after Big Boy shoots the army officer?

2. Describe the encounter Wright has with some white boys when he gets a flat tire.

3. How do the boys give the made up word "quall" meaning?

4. Why does the white hospital staff laugh in this chapter?

5. Describe the confrontation between Wright and the night watchman.

6. What does Mann think about when he raises his ax to kill the family?

7. Describe the fight between Big Boy and Bobo.

8. What happens to Wright when his boss tells him to deliver groceries to a white neighborhood after dark?

9. How does this chapter show the four teenage boys as innocent?

10. What happens to a black bellboy who has sex with a white prostitute?

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