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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9: Changing the Rules.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What holiday does the author recall made being 8-years-old the best year of his childhood?
(a) Easter.
(b) Christmas.
(c) Valentine's Day.
(d) Halloween.

2. How did Alma Whittley help the author?
(a) She helped him get a job at Ford Motor Company.
(b) She helped him write an essay for his college application.
(c) She gave him information about the biology program at Wayne State University.
(d) She gave him a crash course in study skills.

3. Where did the author's mother go when she said she was staying with relatives?
(a) To gamble.
(b) To visit her ex-husband.
(c) To pursue a singing career.
(d) A mental institution.

4. Where did the author and his brother stay when his mother went away in Carrying the Load?
(a) With their father.
(b) Home alone.
(c) With neighbors.
(d) With relatives.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much education does the author say his mother had when she married?

2. What does the author say is the truth he learned much later about his father?

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

4. How often did the author wear an ROTC uniform at school?

5. What did "The Top One Hundred" program help the author learn?

(see the answer key)

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