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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: A Terrible Temper.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the author begin to do, in tenth grade, instead of coming home after school?
(a) Shoplift clothes at the local department store.
(b) Tutor his friends.
(c) Work at a gas station.
(d) Play basketball.

2. What does the author say was an embarrassing and painful experience at Hunter Junior High?
(a) Learning about General Custer.
(b) Gym class.
(c) Eating lunch.
(d) Capping.

3. In what year did the author's family move back to Detroit?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1965.

4. What does the author say he felt "constant temptation" to do at his new school?
(a) Get a bad grade.
(b) Skip class.
(c) Become one of the guys.
(d) Get a girlfriend.

5. Why did the author change schools in the middle of eighth grade?
(a) He transferred to a school for gifted children.
(b) He got expelled from his old school.
(c) He moved back to his old house.
(d) He moved back to Boston.

Short Answer Questions

1. At times, the author says, his mother's refusal to settle for less came across as _____, _____, even _____ to him.

2. Who told the author he should "dress the way you want to be"?

3. What happened halfway through the author's fifth grade year?

4. How did Bobby Farmer impress the author during a history class?

5. Where does the author describe his father working, until his retirement in the 1970s?

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