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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Eight Years Old.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At times, the author says, his mother's refusal to settle for less came across as _____, _____, even _____ to him.
(a) Devotion/Inspiration/Selfless.
(b) Tenacious/Obnoxious/Ambitious.
(c) Motherly/Grandmotherly/Fatherly.
(d) Nagging/Demanding/Heartless.

2. How does the author say Curtis' grades changed in the last year?
(a) They were mostly failing grades.
(b) They had been climbing.
(c) They changed very little.
(d) They had gone from good to great.

3. What does the author say is the truth he learned much later about his father?
(a) That his father was abused as a child.
(b) That his father had another wife and other children.
(c) That his father had a history of substance abuse.
(d) That his father did not believe in God.

4. What type of work did the author's mother find in Boston?
(a) Factory work.
(b) Domestic work.
(c) Restaurant work.
(d) Secretarial work.

5. What was the author's mother determined to accomplish in Detroit?
(a) To reclaim the house the family once lived in.
(b) To get back together with her ex-husband.
(c) To go to night school.
(d) To enroll her sons in private school.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the author's family move back to Detroit?

2. Who does the author say was the "earliest, strongest, and most impacting force" in his life?

3. Who is Curtis?

4. What impression did the author have that his grades reinforced?

5. What score did the author receive on a math quiz that humiliated him?

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