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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. What does the author say he would do before he let his classmates know they hurt him?
(a) Study.
(b) Cry.
(c) Stand outside in the cold.
(d) Die.

2. Where did the author's family move, after his mother decided to rent their house?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Boston.
(c) New York City.
(d) Detroit.

3. What year does the author say he no longer waited for his father to come home from work?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1974.

4. What type of work did the author's mother find in Boston?
(a) Restaurant work.
(b) Factory work.
(c) Domestic 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. What type of curriculum did the school counselor enroll Curtis in, in Carrying the Load?

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

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

4. What does the author's mother call him in "Goodbye Daddy"?

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

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