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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 30-55.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mama Jean offer Jimmy?
(a) Contacts in Chicago.
(b) Secrets about Crab.
(c) A place to come back to.
(d) Money.

2. What does Crab want Jimmy to know about him?
(a) That he had not protected himself against being framed.
(b) That he had done worse things that had not been punished.
(c) That he is not a killer.
(d) That he should never have made the decisions that led him into crime.

3. How long has this gap between intention and action been going on, as the novel begins?
(a) A few days.
(b) A month or two.
(c) A few weeks.
(d) Years.

4. What has Jimmy's intention been for the past few days?
(a) To see his father.
(b) To go to school.
(c) To get food.
(d) To escape from the house.

5. What changes Mama Jean's mood?
(a) She learns that Jimmy has to be punished for being absent so much.
(b) She learns that Crab wants to take Jimmy to Chicago.
(c) She learns that Jimmy's father has been released from prison.
(d) She learns that Jimmy's father is going to send her some money for Jimmy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Crab appear from?

2. What does Mama Jean tell Jimmy?

3. What is Jimmy's class preparing for?

4. What is Mama Jean's relation to Jimmy?

5. When did Jimmy's father go away?

(see the answer key)

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