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

2. What does John say happens to Robby when his appeals are turned down?
(a) He sinks into depression and stops working.
(b) He loses motivation to keep taking classes.
(c) He starts to do advocacy work.
(d) He becomes angry and combative.

3. How did Robby meet Michael Dukes?
(a) They worked a job with a friend in common.
(b) They were both robbed by the same guy.
(c) They met in prison.
(d) They were fired on the same day.

4. When did Stavros die?
(a) Midnight.
(b) 10 a.m.
(c) 3 a.m.
(d) 8 p.m.

5. What does Robby say he found when his girlfriend woke him up after buying heroin?
(a) Fire trucks in the street.
(b) A Cadillac outside the door.
(c) His dealers coming to sell the heroin.
(d) A gang trying to kill him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What pact does Robby say he and the others had made?

2. What does Robby advocate for in the postscript?

3. How does Robby characterize the person who helps them?

4. How did Stavros find out that he had been set up?

5. How had John changed Robby's voice in the first draft?

Short Essay Questions

1. What pact did the robbers make, and how did it get broken?

2. How does John characterize his revision to Robby's story.

3. How did Robby and his crew pull off the robbery?

4. How does John describe Robby's arrest after the drug deal in Detroit?

5. What does Robby say is the purpose of educate?

6. How does John characterize Robby's relationship with Omar?

7. What happened when John took a shortcut to the penitentiary?

8. Who was Red Murphy?

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

10. What does Robby say about educate for prisoners?

(see the answer keys)

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