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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Chapters 5 - 9).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 6, what does Jones imagine the man in the library doing after he leaves the library?
(a) Going home to a wife and family.
(b) Making dinner.
(c) Reading a book in the library.
(d) Going to work.

2. In Chapter 1, what book does Jones begin that he comes to love?
(a) The Bluest Eye.
(b) The Invisible Man.
(c) Beloved.
(d) Another Country.

3. In Chapter 7, what does Jones immediately think when the man next to him at the library computer terminal tells him he is also into what Jones is looking at?
(a) He thinks about his mother being disappointed in him.
(b) He thinks about James Byrd Jr. getting into a truck with white supremacists.
(c) He thinks about Cody bullying him from his youth.
(d) He thinks about how sad he is that he never knew his father.

4. In Chapter 4, what kind of new church does Jones's grandmother start attending when he is about 13?
(a) Unitarian.
(b) Evangelical.
(c) Methodist.
(d) Mormon.

5. In Chapter 4, what does Jones realize after his grandmother takes him to the pulpit of her church?
(a) He will never spend another summer with her again.
(b) He wants to convert to the Evangelical church.
(c) His grandmother does not love him.
(d) He will have to move in with his grandmother.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 8, what is standing in the way of Jones attending the university he wants to attend?

2. In Chapter 6, what play does Jones and his class see in high school?

3. What is Jones surprised about regarding the items he, Cody and Sam take from the hut in the woods?

4. What do Cody and Sam do to Jones on one occasion when they are supposed to be trading magazines?

5. How is the black man whose death Jones sees reported on the news killed in Chapter 3?

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