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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Seventy-Six Dollars and Forty-Nine Cents.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "The Beans and Rice Chronicles of Isaiah Dunn," where is Isaiah's father?
(a) He is lying in bed, refusing to get up.
(b) He is on a business trip to Atlanta.
(c) He left the family and moved to Chicago.
(d) He has died.

2. In "How to Transform," what does the narrator decided to do after two weeks at the gym?
(a) Pay a team captain to let him play.
(b) Invite his father to the gym.
(c) Quit going to the gym.
(d) Challenge Dante.

3. In "Flying Lessons," what culture do Santosh and his grandmother belong to?
(a) Jewish.
(b) Indian.
(c) Jamaican.
(d) Russian.

4. In "Seventy-Six Dollars and Forty-Nine Cents," what changes the narrator?
(a) A fairy godmother.
(b) A car wreck.
(c) A walk on the beach.
(d) A spider bite.

5. In "The Beans and Rice Chronicles of Isaiah Dunn," what is in the father's notebooks?
(a) Recipes.
(b) Fictional stories about Isaiah.
(c) Accounting tables.
(d) Drawings of Charlie.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Sol Painting, Inc.," where does Merci go after she gets done working with her father?

2. In "Choctaw Bigfoot, Midnight in the Mountains," what does the narrator's mom always say about Uncle Kenneth?

3. In "The Difficult Path," why is the narrator allowed to ride the donkey?

4. In "Secret Samantha," what does Samantha use to help her decide which gift to give Blade?

5. In "Choctaw Bigfoot, Midnight in the Mountains," what is the name of the family in the uncle's story?

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