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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3 to 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Ron do for a living before becoming a successful and wealthy art dealer?
(a) He was a postal worker.
(b) He was an art teacher.
(c) He was an investment banker.
(d) He was an artist who could not sell his work.

2. Before meeting Deborah, when was the last time Denver spoke to a white woman?
(a) When the mission volunteers brought him lunch on the plantation.
(b) When he helped a woman with car trouble as a teenager.
(c) When his father was killed and a kindly white nurse took pity on young Denver.
(d) When he met a homeless white woman hitching a train ride.

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

4. How did Denver finally make his escape from life on the cotton fields to being homeless in Fort Worth, Texas?
(a) He hitched a ride from a migrant worker.
(b) He simply walked away after having a bad day.
(c) He jumped on the train near the highway.
(d) The Man died and Denver left in his car.

5. Why was Ron flying in a private jet over the city?
(a) He was the private pilot of a wealthy family.
(b) He was on his way to sell very valuable paintings to the owner of the jet.
(c) He owned the jet and was on his way to a luncheon in his honor.
(d) He had many wealthy friends who made their private jets available to him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Denver think of Deborah the first time he met her in Fort Worth?

2. Why was one of the central figures in the book called Li'l Buddy while growing up?

3. In which state is the plantation that Denver worked as a teenager?

4. What affliction affected Ron's father when Ron was a child?

5. Why did Ron dress differently than the other students when he was college?

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