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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who is Cookie?
(a) Jimmy's father.
(b) Jimmy's aunt.
(c) Jimmy's neighbor.
(d) Jimmy's teacher.
2. What makes Crab uneasy when they stop?
(a) A policeman.
(b) He sees someone he had a fight with.
(c) Smoke from the engine.
(d) The tires are nearly flat.
3. What impression do we get of Jimmy's personality?
(a) He is devious and untrustworthy.
(b) He thinks about killing himself out of despair.
(c) He has beautiful dreams, but gets angry when he cannot realize them as he sees them.
(d) He wants to do the right thing, but is unmotivated.
4. Who fingered Crab for the crime?
(a) The girlfriend of one of the thieves.
(b) The man who killed the man.
(c) The station manager at the filling station where the thieves filled up after the crime.
(d) The policeman who arrested the thieves.
5. What is Jimmy's status in Crab's eyes?
(a) He is still impressionable and can be told anything about Crab's background.
(b) He is the only person who does not know the truth about him.
(c) He is the only one left who might care about him.
(d) He is the only person whose ideas matter to him any more.
6. What does Cookie give Jimmy?
(a) An umbrella.
(b) Books.
(c) A drink.
(d) Food.
7. What is Jimmy doing when the novel begins?
(a) Eating dinner.
(b) Getting out of bed.
(c) Doing homework.
(d) Going to sleep.
8. What does Crab tell Jimmy about his time in jail?
(a) He was sick.
(b) He learned to feel sorry for what he had done.
(c) He read a lot of books.
(d) He was always fighting.
9. Where do Crab and Jimmy go when Crab comes back?
(a) To a lake.
(b) To a filling station.
(c) To a friend's house.
(d) To a scenic overlook.
10. Where does Crab park the car when they stop?
(a) Behind the building, out of sight.
(b) Right in front, with the engine idling.
(c) Off to the side of the filling station.
(d) Slanting across a few parking places.
11. Why does Crab say he was not involved in the crime?
(a) He was not in that town that day.
(b) He was with one of the thieves' girlfriends.
(c) He had a toothache that day.
(d) He had told the thieves he had given up stealing.
12. What does Crab tell Jimmy about the trip to Chicago?
(a) He heard that his job there disappeared.
(b) He never planned to make it.
(c) He could never have done that job anyway.
(d) He will get there after going to see Arkansas.
13. How long has this gap between intention and action been going on, as the novel begins?
(a) Years.
(b) A month or two.
(c) A few weeks.
(d) A few days.
14. What are Crab's plans after proving his innocence?
(a) He plans to get a job and straighten himself out.
(b) He plans to get Jimmy involved in his crimes.
(c) He plans to set up a house in California.
(d) This has not been revealed yet. He plans to go to court to prove his innocence there.
15. What does Crab have in Chicago?
(a) A wife.
(b) A school for Jimmy.
(c) A job.
(d) A business.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where does Crab appear from?
2. What do Jimmy and Crab eat when they stop?
3. What is Jimmy's class preparing for?
4. Where is Jimmy when he wakes up during the drive?
5. How long has Jimmy lived with Mama Jean?
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