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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. Why does Jim stay after school until 4:30 on the day of his friend's wake?
(a) There is a meeting for the basketball team.
(b) He has to clean desks for cutting class.
(c) He is waiting for a ride home.
(d) He joins the math club.

2. When does Jim say his parents go to church?
(a) Easter.
(b) Every Sunday.
(c) Christmas.
(d) When they are invited to weddings.

3. Why does someone run for Brother Kenneth during Billy's seizure?
(a) He is used to handling them.
(b) He is the school nurse.
(c) He is related to Billy.
(d) He will say a prayer for him.

4. What do Jim and friends call the huge rock they jump off of in the Bronx?
(a) The cut.
(b) Big time.
(c) The huge rock.
(d) Climbey.

5. Who does Jim see by surprise on the "most crowded corner in the Bronx"?
(a) Freddie C. from his old neighborhood.
(b) An ex-girlfriends.
(c) His parents.
(d) Two brothers from school.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Jim get three raps across the hand at school?

2. Who gets upset when Jim answers questions in class with, "Yah," instead of, "Yes, sir?"

3. What does Jim call the apartment of Brian and John Browning?

4. Which friend does not manage to get a seat on the train?

5. Who does the Boys' Club have a memorial service for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What behavior puzzles Jim about his rich classmates?

2. Why does Jim say he and his friends are not really breaking into the park to steal basketballs?

3. In the winter of 1964, how does Jim try to prove he is not hooked onmarijuana?

4. What are does Jim say his dad does everyday when he comes home from work?

5. How does Jim feel at the end of the diary?

6. What does Jim say is the advantage of going to a private school?

7. Why does Jim stop writing in the winter of 1964?

8. What does Jim claim he and his friends have mastered?

9. Why is Jimmy Mancole behaving strangely, after he and Jim knock on every door and check every street corner looking for drugs?

10. Why does Jim feel uneasy walking through Harlem with his friends?

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