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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 Troy tell Cory in response to his explanation about the football recruiter?
(a) Troy tells Cory he needs a full-time job.
(b) Troy tells Cory he has met the recruiter.
(c) Troy tells Cory to give back the gifts the recruiter gave him.
(d) Troy tells Cory not to trust the recruiter.

2. When Lyons appears, what makes Troy ask him why he's not in jail?
(a) Troy often poses this question to Lyons.
(b) Troy is implying that Lyons stole his money,
(c) A club where Lyons plays got raided.
(d) Bono told Troy that three of Lyons' friends were in jail.

3. When Rose asks Gabriel if he wants breakfast, what does he say?
(a) He says he usually eats breakfast with Saint Peter.
(b) He says the ladies of the church see that he's fed.
(c) He says he doesn't eat breakfast.
(d) He says the angels prepare his breakfast.

4. After Rose sends Cory out to help Troy, what do Cory and Troy work on silently for some time before talking to each other?
(a) The fence.
(b) The porch swing.
(c) The screen door.
(d) The garden.

5. According to Rose, where has Cory gone?
(a) To a friend's house.
(b) To the store.
(c) To help his grandfather.
(d) To football practice.

Short Answer Questions

1. On the day the play begins, what did the boss do when he caught Troy and Bono's co-worker doing something wrong?

2. Where does Cory work?

3. Why does Troy want to know where Cory is in Act 1, Scene 2?

4. What prompts Troy to tell a long story about how he saw Death in person?

5. What does Rose comment when Troy says that Gabriel can come and go at the boarding house just as he could at home?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rose say when Troy asks her to take care of the baby?

2. Why does Gabriel say that the bad men arrested him?

3. What warning does Bono give Troy about Rose?

4. Why does Troy tell Cory that he needs to get a full-time job?

5. What does Troy say in response to Bono's comment that he's been spending a lot of time with a woman named Alberta?

6. Where is Rose taking Raynell and a cake?

7. After Bono and Troy's conversation about Alberta, Bono leaves and then Troy confesses what to Rose?

8. Gabriel is no longer living at the boarding house; where has he now been taken?

9. What does Troy say in response to Rose's comment that their son Cory is being scouted by a recruiter?

10. After Lyons arrives in Act 1, Scene 4, Gabriel reveals to Rose that he thinks Troy is mad at him for what reason?

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