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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city does Piri go with two octoroons to have sex?

2. Who gives Piri heroin to sell?

3. What does Piri give the officer when he calls him boy?

4. Who pulls Piri off his brother, Jose?

5. What word does Brew say is part of the vocabulary in the South?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Piri feel about Trina marrying another man?

2. What are Piri and Brew's plans in Section 5?

3. Describe Jose and James' physical appearance.

4. What story does Brew tell Piri?

5. How does Piri get off heroin?

6. How does Piri become addicted to heroin?

7. What does Piri think the girl who rubbed against him on the train said to her friends?

8. Why must Piri and Brew sit at the back of the bus?

9. What are Brew and Piri's opinion of Gerald?

10. Why does Little say he did not throw more punches at Piri's midsection?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine Piri's relationship with crime.

1) In what way does Piri make a decision to enter a life of crime rather than being forced into a life of crime?

2) How much do Piri's troubles have to do with his identity crisis?

Essay Topic 2

What did Piri experience in Harlem and how did those experiences shape his character? Would Piri have entered a life of crime if he had grown up in another area of the country?

Essay Topic 3

Examine Piri's time in prison.

1) What concessions did Piri have to make in prison to survive?

2) How did prison change Piri?

3) What kind of person do the students think Piri would have become if he had not gone to prison?

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