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11. Walter decides to pursue another secret interest, despite his friends' disapproval, which quote from the story supports this answer?

• I was very comfortable being a boy, but there were times when the role was uncomfortable.

• When the girls had finished their dancing, they went through some stretching exercises. A teenager, Lorelle Henry, was leading the group, and she was pretty, so we sent a few woo-woos her way.

• They danced to music as a poem was being read.

• I liked dancing, too, but I had to pretend that I didn’t like it. No big deal. I was already keeping reading and writing poems a secret; I would just add dancing.

11. In the selection from Bad Boy, how does Walter change and grow after the incident with the girls in the gym?

• He discovers that he hates basketball

• He discovers that he likes dancing too

• He starts a relationship with Lorelle

• He gets suspended for mocking the girls dancing

14. Which quotation directly expresses a central idea about books in the selection from Bad Boy?

• With school out and me not having access to Mrs. Conway’s cache of books, I rediscovered the George Bruce Branch of the public library on 125th Street.
• The librarians always suggested books that were too young for me, but I still went on a regular basis.
• Away from books I was, at times, almost desperate to fill up the spaces of my life. Books filled those spaces for me.
• I began taking a brown paper bag to the library to bring my books home in.

15. One central idea in the selection from Bad Boy is that boys are “supposed to” act in a certain way. Which sentences from the selection best suggest this idea?

• There wasn’t any ice to skate on in Harlem, so I gave up hockey.
• Most of the girls I knew couldn’t play ball, and that excluded them from most of what I wanted to do with my life.
• When the girls had finished their dancing, they went through some stretching exercises.
• I liked dancing, too, but I had to pretend I didn’t like it.

13. What is a central idea in the selection from Bad Boy?

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4. According to the selection from Bad Boy, what is Walter led to believe that boys should not do?

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1. At what stage of life is Walter, the narrator, when the events of the selection from Bad Boy take place?

• small child
• grade schooler
• teenager
• young adult

3. In the selection from Bad Boy, what happens when Walter and his friends run into a group of girls exercising in the gym?

• The boys make fun of the girls for not being interested in basketball.
• The girls and boys dance together while Walter reads a poem aloud.
• The girls challenge the boys to do their exercises, but the boys cannot.
• The boys invite the girls to play basketball, but the girls do dancing exercises instead.

2. In the selection from Bad Boy, why does Walter feel a connection to the children he sees on the trolley?

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5. How does Walter, the narrator of the selection from Bad Boy, feel about books?

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