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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 is the name of the guy calling out to McCall from a group of shackled inmates, that McCall recalls almost overdosing at the man's home?
(a) Bimbo.
(b) Plaz.
(c) scobe.
(d) Dickie.

2. Chapter 25 opens with McCall entering what?
(a) Alcohol rehab.
(b) Military service.
(c) Drug rehab.
(d) College.

3. In the beginning of Chapter 29, McCall quotes that he never expected going into the system would make him what?
(a) So happy.
(b) A target.
(c) Fit in easier.
(d) An outsider.

4. After McCall meets up with his biological father again in Chapter 30, McCall's father tells him to call when he wants to do what?
(a) Go see a ballgame.
(b) Hang out.
(c) Meet his son.
(d) Go fishing.

5. In Chapter 39, McCall interviews for a job with what newspaper?
(a) The Washington Post.
(b) The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
(c) The Virginia Pilot-Ledger Star.
(d) The Portsmouth Courier.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1981, McCall graduated with honors from what college?

2. After the divorce in Chapter 41, McCall receives a call from where about a job interview?

3. In Part II of the book, McCall reflects on why many return to jail withing first ___ years of release.

4. In Chapter 43, this woman claims to have birthed a child father by McCall.

5. In Chapter 44, McCall boils down his life and that of his friends to one word, which is what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is McCall's life after being released from St Brides like starting life over?

2. How does McCall's relationship with his son, Monroe, compare to McCall's relationship with his biological father as described in Chapter 30?

3. How does McCall's reaction to the watermelon eating contest assignment reflect his racial sensitivity?

4. In Chapter 35, how is McCall fitting into the mainstream?

5. What does McCall say about drugs and the young black man in Chapter 40?

6. Why doesn't McCall trust anyone at the Virginia Pilot-Ledger Star where he works?

7. Why is McCall now afraid of the people with whom he was once so comfortable?

8. Why are Debbie's parents happy about the pregnancy, while McCall's parents are not in Chapter 32?

9. Why do friends and family have to help McCall when he goes to visit his kids in Atlanta, in Chapter 42?

10. Why does McCall see his grandchild as a another cycle of life?

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