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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapters Six through Ten.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter ,1 McCall and his friends are what age when they attack another young boy?
(a) Middle school age.
(b) Teenagers.
(c) Adults.
(d) Elementary school age.

2. Feeling the power of the gun after shooting at a gang chasing him, McCall goes home in Part I and almost confesses all he has done to whom?
(a) His youngest full brother.
(b) His mother.
(c) His stepfather.
(d) His gandmother.

3. In Chapter 7, what is the name of the young man that fights McCall to "toughen" him up?
(a) Billy.
(b) Horace.
(c) Bimbo.
(d) Prairie Dog.

4. What kind of vehicle does McCall's stepfather drive that is also a cause for tension at McCall's job?
(a) An Oldsmobile.
(b) A work truck.
(c) An Eldorado.
(d) A Cadillac.

5. Besides McCall's brothers, stepfather and mother, who else lives with the family when they move into their new housing development home?
(a) Debbie.
(b) J.L.
(c) Bampoose.
(d) Liz.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the neighborhood junior high school, McCall learns about putting down others as a competitive conversation called what?

2. In Chapter 7, McCall likens all the fighting between groups, gangs, and others as what?

3. In Chapter 10, what does McCall successfully do with an ice cream truck?

4. In Chapter 3, the reader discovers that McCall was jealous of his grandmother's affections while she worked as what for a Jewish family?

5. McCall points out that eventually the young boys will give up their fist fighting in favor of what?

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