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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Chapters 14 - 17).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 16, what book is Jones's class in high school currently reading?
(a) The Red Badge of Courage.
(b) Catch-22.
(c) Huckleberry Finn.
(d) The Catcher in the Rye.

2. In Chapter 10, what does Jones think about the way his mother looks as they go together to drop him off at college?
(a) She looks like the kind of women you would see in New York City.
(b) She looks ill.
(c) She looks sad.
(d) She looks wealthy.

3. In Chapter 12, what does Jones tell the Botanist when he leaves his house after their first encounter?
(a) To meet him in the park that weekend.
(b) To delete his number.
(c) To call him again.
(d) To turn himself into the police.

4. In Chapter 4, what does Jones's grandmother find in his room that causes her to make him pray with her?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Racy novels.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Magazine pictures of bare-chested men.

5. What do Cody and Sam do to Jones on one occasion when they are supposed to be trading magazines?
(a) Tell his mother he has been looking at pornography.
(b) Steal his magazine and lock him out of their house.
(c) Hit him with a rock from a slingshot.
(d) Beat him with a baseball bat.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part Four, what does Jones's mother say she does not have regarding him?

2. In Chapter 8, where does Jones get accepted to college and where he desperately would like to attend?

3. In Chapter 15, what does Jones tell his mother about how he spent New Year's Eve?

4. In Chapter 7, what was the first man Jones tried to kiss wearing?

5. In Chapter 6, what play does Jones and his class see in high school?

(see the answer key)

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