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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 Ron.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The boy who roped Denver and nearly killed him claimed he was teaching Denver a lesson about what?
(a) Being off the plantation.
(b) Being where he wasn't welcome.
(c) Bothering white ladies.
(d) Helping people with car trouble.

2. Why did Ron's upscale art gallery in Fort Worth not post the prices of the paintings they had for sale?
(a) It was considered inappropriate to post prices on very expensive art.
(b) Ron believed it was bad luck to post price tags on the paintings.
(c) The prices were negotiable and buyers always bargained with sellers of fine art.
(d) Greasy, smelly homeless people wandered the area.

3. Denver recalled stories from his childhood about black men being fed to a gator for doing what?
(a) Stealing cotton and selling it in town.
(b) Looking at a white woman.
(c) Robbing the Man.
(d) Helping a stranded white woman with car trouble.

4. What type of hardwood trees surrounded the Red River Parish plantation of Denver's youth?
(a) Cherry.
(b) Oak.
(c) Pine.
(d) Pecan.

5. When Ron sold two valuable paintings in the mid-1970s, where did he and his wife go to socialize with multimillionaire clients for a month?
(a) Washington, D.C.
(b) Canada.
(c) The Bahamas.
(d) Europe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Looking back as an adult on the scene with the cruel teacher from his youth, how does Ron feel?

2. During his time working as a sharecropper picking cotton, what did Denver receive instead of a paycheck?

3. What was the name of the mean teacher who punished Ron for his honest mistake?

4. In Chapter 2: Ron, Ron recalls a humiliating experience as a child. What honest mistake did Ron make with his teacher?

5. How did the white boys who attacked Denver nearly kill him?

(see the answer key)

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