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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Twelve and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gunnar's coach tell him one morning?
(a) Gunnar is suspended from play.
(b) Nick is in a mental institution.
(c) Nick has killed himself.
(d) The basketball team is going to state finals.

2. What does Gunnar do before they move?
(a) Wrecks the house.
(b) Steals the car keys so they can't move.
(c) Gets kicked out of school.
(d) Writes all his friends a letter.

3. Where do Gunnar and Yoshiko tell people she will deliver their baby?
(a) At the police station.
(b) At the Hillside hospital.
(c) In Hillside Park.
(d) In Reynier Park.

4. What happens after more children arrive at the swings?
(a) The swing set is pushed over.
(b) Betty knocks Gunnar out.
(c) A pick-up game of basketball starts.
(d) The Kaufman children are beaten.

5. What kind of summer camp does Gunnar's mother want them to go to?
(a) She doesn't have an opinion about camps.
(b) An all black camp.
(c) A racially mixed camp.
(d) An all white camp.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gunnar tell a girl about the eye chart?

2. What did Gunnar learn in Santa Monica that seems to anger kids where he now lives?

3. In what subject is Nick Scoby most interested?

4. Why doesn't Compton return home one night?

5. What do the gang members who find Gunnar in the store do?

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