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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 type of curriculum did the school counselor enroll Curtis in, in Carrying the Load?
(a) Sports.
(b) Technology.
(c) Vocational.
(d) College prep.

2. What does the author say worship services and Bible lessons frequently focused on?
(a) Missionary doctors.
(b) Politicians.
(c) Moses.
(d) Bad parents.

3. What damage did the author do with a rock in "A Terrible Temper"?
(a) He smashed a window of a business in town.
(b) He hit his mother with it.
(c) He broke a neighborhood kid's glasses and smashed his nose.
(d) He broke his brother's model airplane.

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

5. How old was the author when he was baptized for the second time?
(a) 14.
(b) 8.
(c) 12.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. What rule did the author's mother set for his television watching?

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

3. How did the author and his brother often travel to Wilson Junior High?

4. Why does the author say he felt the stigma of being poor more acutely?

5. In "A Terrible Temper," the author says once he reached the _____, he lost all _____.

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