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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 – Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Deems’s cousin, who taught him how to profit from heroin?
(a) Possum.
(b) Rooster.
(c) Fox.
(d) Bobcat.

2. What is the name of the officer who arrests Jet after the shooting?
(a) Pitts.
(b) Potts.
(c) Petts.
(d) Putts.

3. Upon arriving at work in Chapter 4, Sportcoat becomes confused when he discovers what in his pocket?
(a) Drugs.
(b) A ball.
(c) A bottle of King Kong.
(d) A gun.

4. Where does the first chapter of the novel take place?
(a) The Causeway Housing Projects.
(b) The Throughway Housing Projects.
(c) The Parkway Housing Projects.
(d) The Freeway Housing Projects.

5. What is the name of the plant desired by Mrs. Elefante in Chapter 11?
(a) Knotweed.
(b) Hogweed.
(c) Pokeweed.
(d) Milkweed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Sportcoat shoot at the opening of the novel?

2. What issue consumes the Elephant at the start of Chapter 5?

3. According to the narrator in Chapter 2, in what year did Sportcoat move to New York?

4. What is the real name of the Elephant?

5. How does Sportcoat save Deems’s life in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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