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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Our Time, II.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Catch-22 was John caught in?
(a) He was expected to be black and also to fit in seamlessly.
(b) He was expected to be smart and also anti-intellectual.
(c) He was expected to be a rebel and also a conformist.
(d) He was expected to have money, but he was expected not to work.

2. What does John say he feels about escaping to Wyoming?
(a) Relief.
(b) Trapped.
(c) Apprehension.
(d) Guilt.

3. How did John's mother know that Robby was getting high?
(a) She heard from the neighbors.
(b) She heard in the trial.
(c) She caught him in the act of shooting up.
(d) She found money missing from her purse, and a syringe.

4. John says that the prisoners are like him except for what?
(a) They are illiterate.
(b) They are poor.
(c) They are bad.
(d) They are unlucky.

5. Where do John and Jamila have to drive through on the way to the penitentiary?
(a) Farms.
(b) A business district.
(c) A mall.
(d) A ghetto.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kinds of places did Robby NOT frequent?

2. What does John say he and his family see when they drive up?

3. What were prisoners prevented from doing after the revolt, according to John?

4. How does John characterize the waiting room?

5. What does Robby say people in the ghetto valued?

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