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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. After the divorce in Chapter 41, McCall receives a call from where about a job interview?
2. How does McCall feel about the trip his co-worker and girlfriend are soon to embark?
3. McCall is challenged one day while he is out doing what, as noted in Chapter 40?
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?
5. In Chapter 38, after a change in the newspaper McCall receives what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens when McCall deals with the question of whether to abort his own child and an assignment in Chapter 31?
2. How does McCall's decision to do the right thing and not worry about what people think about him in Part II illustrate McCall's growth and maturity?
3. How does McCall proceed with the advice he got from Milton regarding his prison record during the Washington Post interview?
4. What happens with the divorce from Debbie in Chapter 41?
5. What happens in Chapter 40 when McCall is challenged by another driver?
6. Why do friends and family have to help McCall when he goes to visit his kids in Atlanta, in Chapter 42?
7. How does the fellowship program in Missouri help McCall deal with his racial sensitivity?
8. What does McCall fear about his kids from Debbie and what does he do about it, according to Chapter 34?
9. How is McCall's life after being released from St Brides like starting life over?
10. How does Stanley's visit become a turning point for McCall and the drug scene?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Part III of the book, McCall describes his relationship with Yvette, her challenges with being inferior and the Muslim principle that women hold an inferior position in the home. Looking at McCall's upbringing, his relationship with his mother and his mother's role in McCall's home, how do the two outlooks, situations, etc. clash? Why does McCall have problems with this Muslim principle and how much of this is due to his upbringing and his mother's role in the home?
Essay Topic 2
In Chapter 14, McCall shoots a man who had once raped and is now harassing Elisabeth. How does the system handle McCall and this crime and how does this compare to how something like this might be handled in today's system with a shooter like McCall and a man like Plaz? Consider the type of threat to Elisabeth as an influencing factor as well.
Essay Topic 3
Looking at Part III of the book, highlight examples of McCall's race sensitivity as well as when he let it overcome him and when he stepped back and did not let it cloud his decisions.
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