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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Antonia hands in her homework to her math teacher, why is she embarrassed?
(a) Antonia is embarrassed because she did the wrong problems.
(b) Antonia is embarrassed because her youngest brother spilled cereal on it.
(c) Antonia is embarrassed because her math homework is messy and covered with erasure marks.
(d) Antonia is embarrassed because she had to write her homework on newspaper.

2. What does Antonia think Jazz' smells like when she first meets her?
(a) Green apple.
(b) Incense.
(c) Cigarette smoke.
(d) Soap.

3. Jazz describes her parents' reaction to her new hairstyle. What does she say they are going to do?
(a) Party.
(b) Die.
(c) Cronk.
(d) Laugh.

4. What does Antonia make for dinner and then try to get her mother to eat in Chapter 3?
(a) Fried chicken.
(b) Hot pizza.
(c) Roast beef.
(d) Italian spaghetti.

5. What is the name of the kindly neighbor who watches Antonia's brothers?
(a) Mrs. Luther.
(b) Mrs. Marsh.
(c) Mrs. Bartroni.
(d) Mrs. Dillon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator's youngest brother eat when there is no other food?

2. What food does Antonia take off an abandoned food tray in the cafeteria to give to her brothers?

3. Antonia's mother paid the electric bill, but how does she do it?

4. What grade are the two main characters in when they meet in Chapter One?

5. What is the tattoo on Jazz's foot?

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