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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. How does what happens to Oscar affect Bobby's later actions in prison?
2. What information does Glass Top give Blood in their first meeting?
3. Where/How is Bobby's Mama working when he comes home from University?
4. What does Blood do first upon waking up in Chapter 7?
5. After beating Runt with a wire, how does Blood respond to his own reaction?
Short Essay Questions
1. Bobby accepts the invitation to attend Tuskegee University initially and only leaves when kicked out for bad behavior. How is Bobby's decision to attend college indicative of his frame of mind at this age?
2. In what two ways does Pepper influence Blood?
3. Apart from a beating, what does Sweet Jones provide for Blood during their first meeting?
4. Many characters come and go in the story without being given names, even if they play a reasonably memorable role for the author (like the banker with the big tip in Chapter 1). However, in Chapter 9, Silas plays a singularly minor role and yet is given a name and place in the story. What significance could be attributed to this?
5. What is one of Slim's secrets to success for pimping in Chicago?
6. How does Blood's experience with Pepper instill in him a desire for money?
7. Describe the con that Party Time and Bobby work on white men.
8. Why do Blood and Sweet Jones never discuss their differing opinions on white society?
9. Who are the first pimps and prostitutes in young Bobby's life and how is his encounter with them a generally positive experience?
10. How does it speak to Blood's salesmanship that he is able to score Runt as his own working girl after such a short period of time?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Beck's early years, doctors, lawyers, bankers were the only high class "Negro" society he was exposed to that looked as well or lived as well as he and his family (with Henry Upshaw). Yet apparently this did not make enough of an impression upon him to lead him to highly value education and he is thrown out of Tuskegee University for bad behavior. In the late 1920's what were the educational and professional opportunities generally available to black men, and how did this affect Beck?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and comment on the irony in the fact that when Slim is released from Leavenworth, he has lost everything and everyone in his life except Mama, the person who, in his mind, drove him into the life he now leads.
Essay Topic 3
The following statement appears at the very beginning of the book "Pimp: The Story of My Life": "This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are use fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental." How does this statement affect the value of the story in your estimation?
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