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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Go Hitler!" - "The Cheese Boys".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the author first saving money for when he started hustling?
(a) He was saving up money to move to America.
(b) He was saving up money to start his own business.
(c) He was saving up money to go to college.
(d) He was saving up money to buy a roach-infested flat.

2. What was the "pencil test" that the government administered to some colored people in South Africa?
(a) A test to determine whiteness, based on whether a pencil would stay in place if stuck in one's hair.
(b) A literacy test that colored people had to pass in order to vote in South African elections.
(c) A written test that, if passed, qualified a colored person to be reclassified as white.
(d) A measurement of a worker's strength determined by how large a bundle of pencils they could break with their bare hands.

3. Where did Patricia move at age nine?
(a) She moved in with her father.
(b) She ran away from her family entirely.
(c) She moved in with her mother.
(d) She moved in with her aunt.

4. Why did Patricia make the author push her car?
(a) The car was broken.
(b) She wanted to maximize fuel.
(c) She wanted to help the author become strong.
(d) She was punishing the author.

5. Why does the author compare Patricia to a "guerilla fighter" (84)?
(a) She was too slow to catch him for a whooping so she had to get her attacks in on the fly.
(b) She fought for what she believed in.
(c) She disliked the great apes and, growing up, the author did not know the difference between a "guerilla fighter" and a "gorilla fighter."
(d) She was extremely proficient with improvised explosives.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did arguments between the author and his mother change after the author turned eight?

2. How did the author feel when he saw what Abel did to the ringleader from the incident under the mulberry tree?

3. Who did the author and Patricia thank for the stolen burgers that Patricia purchased?

4. What did the author discover in a stolen object, causing him to rethink his life of crime as described in the story "The Cheese Boys"?

5. Why were students willing to pay the author to buy food for them?

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