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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: A Big Boy's Problem.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What other role did the author's father serve in, that he recalls observing only once?
(a) His father played trumpet in a jazz band.
(b) His father was a Baptist minister.
(c) His father was a member of the school board.
(d) His father volunteered as a crossing guard.

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

3. How much education does the author say his mother had when she married?
(a) Third grade.
(b) High school.
(c) Tenth grade.
(d) College.

4. What frightened the author at the start of "Eight Years Old" that he says are bigger than cats?
(a) Roaches.
(b) Rats.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Weeds.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the author and his brother give up football in "Two Positives"?

2. Who is Curtis?

3. What does the author say he felt "constant temptation" to do at his new school?

4. How old was the author when he learned that his father was leaving?

5. What group at Wilson Junior High asked the author how to solve problems?

(see the answer key)

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