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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 Robby say is true of all valuable things?
(a) They are only available to whites.
(b) They are transitory.
(c) They are worth working hard for.
(d) They depend on the prison bureaucracy.

2. What does Robby say people in the ghetto valued?
(a) Race pride.
(b) Hard work.
(c) Family.
(d) Good times.

3. What makes John angry during his visit with Robby?
(a) That justice was not served.
(b) That Robby's life is costing the taxpayer so much when he should be working.
(c) That Robby is innocent.
(d) That the prison workers can punch out.

4. What does Robby say he wants prisoners to become?
(a) A resource for innovation.
(b) An investment in society's future.
(c) Productive members of society.
(d) Positive role models for youth.

5. Who is shooting at Robby?
(a) Police.
(b) Rival dealers.
(c) Criminals coming to steal his heroin.
(d) A rival gang.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Robby say he wishes people knew?

2. Who is Pops?

3. How does John object when the guard doesn't let him sit at the lawyer-client table?

4. How does Robby characterize the people he worked with?

5. What did Stavros do when he was shot the second time?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the botched job feel wrong from the start, according to Robby?

2. Who was Red Murphy?

3. How did Robby and his crew get assistance on the night of the robbery?

4. How did Robby come to believe that Stavros had a gun?

5. Describe Robby's relationship with Tanya.

6. Describe Robby's travels after the robbery?

7. How does Robby characterize his work with autistic kids?

8. Describe Robby's meeting with Johnny-Boy.

9. What does Robby say about his educate in his speech?

10. What is it about the prison workers that makes John mad?

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