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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What news does John get at the beginning of the book?
(a) His brother has shown up at his mother's house.
(b) His brother has received a life sentence.
(c) His brother has just finished school.
(d) His brother has murdered a man.

2. What does John say he wishes he had done the first time Robby was arrested?
(a) Sent him to rehab.
(b) Bailed him out.
(c) Threatened his life to straighten him out.
(d) Left him in jail to teach him a lesson.

3. What does John say he and his family see when they drive up?
(a) Barbed wire and guards.
(b) Chain link fences and dogs.
(c) Guard towers and guns.
(d) Crowds of waiting visitors.

4. How does John characterize the waiting room?
(a) Ugly and dirty.
(b) Modern and sterile.
(c) Disorienting and confusing.
(d) Warm and cozy.

5. Who calls John at the beginning of the book?
(a) His mother.
(b) His sister-in-law.
(c) Robby.
(d) Michael Dukes.

6. What does John say is an inmate's worst enemy?
(a) Prison food.
(b) Time.
(c) The other prisoners.
(d) The legal system.

7. What is a fence?
(a) An undercover police agent.
(b) A loan shark.
(c) A co-conspirator.
(d) A criminal who sells stolen goods.

8. John says that the prisoners are like him except for what?
(a) They are poor.
(b) They are unlucky.
(c) They are illiterate.
(d) They are bad.

9. Why does Jamila think Robby should be out of prison?
(a) Because he was wrongly imprisoned.
(b) Because he wants to be.
(c) Because he is her uncle.
(d) Because he eats apples.

10. When did Robby's robbery-murder take place?
(a) May 1975.
(b) November 1976.
(c) November 1975.
(d) May 1974.

11. How many years separate John and Robby?
(a) 10.
(b) 6.
(c) 5.
(d) 8.

12. How does John say the guests are treated while they're at the prison?
(a) As fellow wardens.
(b) As trash.
(c) As prisoners.
(d) As VIPs.

13. What does John say commenced after Garth's death?
(a) Robby's determination to appeal his conviction.
(b) Robby's desire to be a father.
(c) Robby's reawakening to religion and spirituality.
(d) Robby's decline into drugs and crime.

14. How does John say he tries to treat the prisoners?
(a) As dangerous animals.
(b) As objects.
(c) As machines.
(d) As people.

15. When does Robby show up in Laramie?
(a) November 1975.
(b) July 1977.
(c) November 1976.
(d) April 1976.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John notice about the prisoners?

2. Who is Jamila?

3. What was the Homewood Avenue district?

4. What does John say Garth's death represents for Robby?

5. What does Garth seem to have died of?

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