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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 do Gunnar and Nick and some other boys do at school on Monday?
(a) Lock the principal in his office.
(b) Scale the fence and go off school property.
(c) Write graffiti in the hallway.
(d) Find some girls for dates for the next weekend.

2. What does Gunnar feel like in his neighborhood?
(a) A social reformer.
(b) A clean-up boy.
(c) A foreigner.
(d) A prophet.

3. What does Gunnar say he was advocating in his speech?
(a) Holding the black family together.
(b) Dissolving the lines between races.
(c) His own suicide.
(d) Getting high government officials to commit suicide.

4. What do the Gun Totin' Hooligans do to avenge Pumpkin?
(a) Burn up a store.
(b) Vandalize the hospital.
(c) Attack another gang.
(d) Kill the guy that murdered him.

5. For what do colleges woo Gunnar?
(a) His athletic and academic abilitites.
(b) Playing basketball.
(c) Being captain of the debate team.
(d) To boost minority levels at the colleges.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of stories does Gunnar's mother tell him?

2. What does Gunnar learn the recruiter from Harvard will get if Gunnar signs with him?

3. What is the park near Gunnar's house like?

4. What does Nick see as the problem with the Boston fire trucks?

5. What does Euripides do after he taunts some British soldiers?

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