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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 grade did the author receive in math that gave him hope?
(a) A.
(b) B.
(c) D.
(d) C.

2. Who is Curtis?
(a) The author's father.
(b) The author's brother.
(c) The author's grandfather.
(d) The author's cousin.

3. How old was the author's mother when she married his father?
(a) 23.
(b) 30.
(c) 13.
(d) 28.

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

5. The author graduates _____ in his senior high school class.
(a) First.
(b) Second.
(c) Fourth.
(d) Third.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What method in "Two Positives" does the author say his family used to protect each other?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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