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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapters 9, 10, and 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Claude's mother do when she comes home from her job of driving a taxi?
(a) Reads to Claude.
(b) Drinks beer.
(c) Cleans.
(d) Gives piano lessons.

2. What movie particularly interests Claude because of its story line, which he relates to his life?
(a) A Raisin in the Sun.
(b) A Place in the Sun.
(c) A Summer Place.
(d) Island in the Sun.

3. According to Emma, what happens to Claude's father?
(a) Emma doesn't know who Claude's father is.
(b) Claude's father went to the war.
(c) Claude's father died.
(d) Emma doesn't know what happened to Claude's father.

4. What does Claude notice about his mother since Al Johnson is spending more time with her?
(a) She is less forgetful.
(b) She is calmer.
(c) She is more depressed.
(d) She is more unstable.

5. When Emma stops going to work, what does Al Johnson do at Claude's request?
(a) Loans Emma money.
(b) Gets Emma a new job.
(c) Marries Emma.
(d) Speaks to Emma about her problems.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Claude discover an old piano?

2. What does Claude do with the school accessory he finds under his seat at the movies?

3. Where does Claude sit in relation to the other children in the children's section of the movie theater?

4. Why does the Fisk housekeeper give Claude the item while he waits for Catherine to go to the dance?

5. How does Catherine treat Claude at the Bentley School dance?

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