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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 - 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of business did Uncle Gary establish?
(a) A bricklaying business.
(b) A timber business.
(c) A roofing business.
(d) A coal mining business.

2. Why did Mamaw encourage Vance to learn to play golf?
(a) Because that is where rich people do business.
(b) Because golf helps the lower back muscles.
(c) Because she liked to watch golf on television.
(d) Because she wanted to play golf herself.

3. How old was Vance when his mom and stepdad moved the family to Preble County?
(a) 12.
(b) 10.
(c) 13.
(d) 9.

4. What was the first chapter-book that Vance's mother bought him when he learned to read?
(a) Space Brat.
(b) Curious George.
(c) Anne of Green Gables.
(d) The Wind in the Willows.

5. Vance notes in his Introduction that William Julius Wilson, Charles Murray, and others have authored tracts demonstrating that upward mobility fell of in what decade in the U.S.?
(a) The 1950s.
(b) The 1960s.
(c) The 1980s.
(d) The 1970s.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the merger between Armco Steel and Kawasaki?

2. How much money per month did Vance send to his grandmother after her insurance premiums went up too much for her to afford them in Chapter 10?

3. What did Mamaw tell Vance that there was nothing lower than when he was growing up?

4. What month was it when Vance went into a military recruiter's office for the Marine Corps?

5. Vance opens his Introduction by telling the reader that he finds the existence of the book itself to be what?

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