I made all the changes to the test app and ran it, and here's what it 
gave me:

before class : main
inside class : FirstClass
YAY INITIALIZE!
in initialize : #<FirstClass:0x28dac>
example.rb:18: private method `test' called for #<FirstClass:0x28dac> 
(NoMethodError)

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