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

2. While at St. Brides, McCall learns what trade?
(a) Steel work.
(b) Printing.
(c) Iron work.
(d) Shipping.

3. According to McCall in Chapter 9, after a boy is killed, who arrives in town with plans for war?
(a) The Black Panthers.
(b) More rival gangs.
(c) The Army Reserve.
(d) The NAACP.

4. In Chapter 3, McCall talks about his family, including his two full bothers whose names are what?
(a) Bryan Keith and Billy.
(b) Junnie and Dwight.
(c) Billy and Dwight.
(d) Billy and Junnie.

5. Even being on the honor roll and adults pulling for his academic success is not enough to pull McCall from his old life, so in Chapter 14 McCall describes going to his college classes ___ or not showing up at all.
(a) Late.
(b) Angry.
(c) Unprepared.
(d) High.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Besides McCall's brothers, stepfather and mother, who else lives with the family when they move into their new housing development home?

3. When the family arrives at their new home in 1964, McCall's stepfather works full-time and does lawn work part-time to support the family, after retiring from where?

4. As McCall learns more about what process, he finally makes a career choice?

5. In 1964, McCall and his family move into a new housing development called what?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part I, why does McCall envy the dirty white children running around in a restaurant?

2. While driving around after graduation and not finding place to meet up with friends, what does McCall mean when he cites this driving around as an analogy of his life at this point?

3. When several of McCall's friends decide to drop out of school, why does McCall stay in school?

4. What scam do Elisabeth and McCall run in Chapter 15?

5. According to McCall in Chapter 6, why does he expect that his mother should have talked to her boys about sex?

6. In Chapter 5, how is McCall affected after being caught shoplifting?

7. How does McCall and Elisabeth's scam affect them and the neighborhood?

8. When the new housing development is built for blacks, what does McCall describe as the stated goal and the perceived goal for this project?

9. Why does McCall feel he should have acted differently when he refuses work while on a prison type plantation in Chapter 19?

10. Why do McCall and his stepfather clash about work in Chapter 10?

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