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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) Motherly/Grandmotherly/Fatherly.
(c) Nagging/Demanding/Heartless.
(d) Tenacious/Obnoxious/Ambitious.

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

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

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

5. Where does the author describe his father working, until his retirement in the 1970s?
(a) A Cadillac plant.
(b) Paradise Theater.
(c) A mill.
(d) A funeral home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What other role did the author's father serve in, that he recalls observing only once?

2. What frightened the author at the start of "Eight Years Old" that he says are bigger than cats?

3. What year does the author say he no longer waited for his father to come home from work?

4. The author told his mother that _____ are supposed to _____.

5. What does Mother tell the author his father had done?

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