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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. 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.

2. What method in "Two Positives" does the author say his family used to protect each other?
(a) Defensiveness.
(b) Silence.
(c) Love.
(d) Revenge.

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

4. What does the author's mother call him in "Goodbye Daddy"?
(a) Benjamin.
(b) Ben.
(c) Benjie.
(d) Bennie.

5. Who tells a story in "Eight Years Old" that led the author to his first religious experience?
(a) Curtis.
(b) Pastor Ford.
(c) Sonya.
(d) Mrs. Williamson.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old was the author's mother when she married his father?

3. What happened halfway through the author's fifth grade year?

4. What did the author's mother consistently ask him about, no matter how tired she was?

5. What does the author say his mother brought a sense of to the family?

(see the answer key)

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