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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Alfred remember on his way home that he wishes he could warn his best friend about in Chapter 1?
(a) The silent alarm.
(b) The shotgun under the counter.
(c) The security cameras.
(d) The bulletproof windows.

2. What is the name of Mr. Donatelli's assistant in the novel?
(a) Jeff.
(b) Spoon.
(c) Bud.
(d) Griffin.

3. Who stops the fight in Chapter 7?
(a) Willie Streeter.
(b) Alfred.
(c) Bud.
(d) Mr. Donatelli.

4. What is Alfred's last name?
(a) Jones.
(b) Harmon.
(c) Smith.
(d) Brooks.

5. In Chapter 4, there is a speaker on the street corner telling the black people to do what?
(a) Vote next week.
(b) Keep the neighborhood clean.
(c) Love their neighbors.
(d) Fight back against whites.

6. Alfred finds out that the fight was called off against whose wishes in Chapter 7?
(a) Bud's.
(b) Mr. Donatelli's.
(c) The referee's.
(d) Willie Streeter's.

7. Whom does Alfred wish would run with him in the mornings in Chapter 10?
(a) Bud.
(b) Sonny.
(c) Pearl.
(d) James.

8. Who said that if Alfred came back he might as well see what he came back for in Chapter 6?
(a) Mr. Donatelli.
(b) James.
(c) Hollis.
(d) Red.

9. What is the name of Alfred's aunt who raised him?
(a) Roberta.
(b) Pearl.
(c) Susan.
(d) Mary.

10. Who is Alfred waiting for in the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) Hollis.
(b) Sonny.
(c) James.
(d) Major.

11. Where did Robert Lipsyte attend college?
(a) Columbia University.
(b) New York University.
(c) Rutgers University.
(d) Harvard University.

12. What caused the limp that Henry has in the novel?
(a) Smallpox.
(b) AIDS.
(c) Polio.
(d) Syphillis.

13. In literature, what conflicts are incompatibilities in how two or more individuals relate to one another?
(a) Internal conflicts.
(b) Adjunct conflicts.
(c) Relational conflicts.
(d) Character conflicts.

14. In Chapter 2, when Alfred leaves the apartment, a boy tells him that Sonny and who are looking for him?
(a) James.
(b) Major.
(c) Pearl.
(d) Hollis.

15. What does Alfred leave the apartment to do in the morning in Chapter 5?
(a) Go to the gym.
(b) Go running.
(c) Get coffee.
(d) Rob a store.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who stops Alfred to question him in Chapter 5?

2. What is the name of Alfred's cousin who attends college?

3. What causes tensions to be particularly high at the gym in Chapter 10?

4. In Chapter 6, Alfred bounces up the stairs to the gym and he doesn't see Mr. Donatelli or whom?

5. Before he goes to sleep in Chapter 4, Alfred sets his alarm for what time?

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