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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. What does Piri draw Rocky as?

2. What does Louie do when he hears his sentence?

3. What do Piri and Brew want to join in Norfolk?

4. What does the gang have to buy in this section?

5. What part of America do Piri and Brew travel to?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the prison guard, Casey, react to Piri and Little fighting?

2. What tragedy occurs when Piri returns to New York?

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

4. Describe the argument between Piri and his brother, Jose.

5. What work does Piri find in Section 7?

6. What story does Brew tell Piri?

7. Describe Piri's routine at Sing Sing prison?

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

9. Why does Brew think the term "boy" is acceptable?

10. What problems does Gerald say he has being part Negro?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine racism in the South.

1) What were the differences between race relations in the South to race relations in the North in the Fifties?

2) In what way does Piri not understand the Southern culture and what people like Brew have been through?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss with the students first person point of view. Why do the students think first person point of view is not necessarily reliable? What moments in the book do the students think are not so reliable and why? With the students discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using the first person.

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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