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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. What is the name of the boy in Part I of the book that McCall and others think is dead, only to find him alive and at home when they return to their neighborhood?
(a) Prairie Dog.
(b) Bryan Keith.
(c) Horace.
(d) Bimbo.

2. In Chapter 3, the reader discovers that McCall was jealous of his grandmother's affections while she worked as what for a Jewish family?
(a) Maid.
(b) Nurse.
(c) Cook.
(d) Nanny.

3. In Chapter 10, McCall talks about gifts under a Christmas tree that he ____.
(a) Opens.
(b) Drops off.
(c) Wraps.
(d) Takes.

4. In Chapter 7, McCall likens all the fighting between groups, gangs, and others as what?
(a) Having fun.
(b) Inevitable.
(c) Rite of Passage.
(d) Dress Rehearsal.

5. In Part I of the book, McCall recalls a moment when this person grabbed one of his brothers and told them to "stop acting like a nigger." Who is this person?
(a) McCall's mother.
(b) A school teacher.
(c) McCall's oldest brother.
(d) McCall's stepfather.

Short Answer Questions

1. After McCall and his friends beat the young man in Chapter 1, what does McCall admit he feared for a moment?

2. Who, according to McCall in Chapter 10, backs up his alibi when McCall needs one?

3. 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?

4. What is the name of the school McCall's parents move him back to after he did not fit in at the white junior high school?

5. The young boy attacked in Chapter 1 is riding what when he is attacked?

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