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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Chapter 23, the college responds to McCall, telling him to do what?
2. Looking for something else after the scam in Chapter 16, McCall robs a McDonald's and is sentenced to how many years?
3. As the new kid in the black junior high school, McCall is introduced to the term "getting clean" which means what?
4. After losing his job, McCall is soon looking for opportunities to do what?
5. Whatever McCall sells from the armed robberies is because he does not want it or because what?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does McCall dislike his stepfather's behavior with white people?
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 the new housing development is built for blacks, what does McCall describe as the stated goal and the perceived goal for this project?
4. In Chapter ,4 McCall is now in a black junior high school, but he is still the new kid; what are some things he does to help him fit in?
5. How does McCall respond after going to a party in a hostile neighborhood unarmed with his friends and losing one of their own after fleeing shots from rival group?
6. How does McCall relate what happens with the manual prison labor in Chapter 19 with his stepfather's teachings?
7. Why does McCall feel he should have acted differently when he refuses work while on a prison type plantation in Chapter 19?
8. In Part I of the book, why does McCall think a junior high school was built near the black housing development?
9. In Chapter 11, McCall is hustling people and breaking into homes; why does he stop?
10. Why does McCall refer to the fighting of whites and among groups and gangs, in Chapter 7 as "dress rehearsal?"
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss how McCall's actions/behaviors in Chapters 1 though 5 illustrate or embody his fears?
Essay Topic 2
In Chapter 34, McCall talks about the pressure not to marry Debbie and his idea that the marriage will legitimize things. Explain circumstances. Discuss how the the pressure to not marry and McCall's perception of "legitimization" compare to McCall's decisions in earlier years on the streets and in the prison.
Essay Topic 3
How does McCall's driving around and never finding his friends serve as an analogy of his life up to this point? Be specific and support with details from McCall's life up to this point.
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