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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Robby's murder/robbery take place?
(a) San Francisco, CA.
(b) Pittsburgh, PA.
(c) Brooklyn, NY.
(d) Laramie, WY.

2. Why doesn't Jamila tell her friends about Robby?
(a) They would want to go visit him.
(b) They have their own problems in their families.
(c) They wouldn't understand.
(d) They would torment her.

3. Who does Jamila say Robby looks like?
(a) Frederick Douglass.
(b) Wilt chamberlain.
(c) Louis Armstrong.
(d) Stevie Wonder.

4. Where did John go to school?
(a) UPenn.
(b) Cornell.
(c) Penn State.
(d) Harvard.

5. What news does John get at the beginning of the book?
(a) His brother has received a life sentence.
(b) His brother has murdered a man.
(c) His brother has shown up at his mother's house.
(d) His brother has just finished school.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does John characterize his feeling about his brother?

2. What does John notice about the prisoners?

3. Who was Garth?

4. What does John say it is dangerous to drive through the Homewood Avenue district?

5. How does John say he and his family have to behavior at the prison?

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