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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, why is the main figure in the play Jones sees in high school targeted and beaten to death?
(a) He is poor.
(b) He is gay.
(c) He is a Muslim.
(d) He is black.

2. In Chapter 4, where does Jones's grandmother live?
(a) Sacramento.
(b) Memphis.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Austin.

3. In Chapter 4, who in Jones's family does he refer to as a man of God?
(a) His grandfather.
(b) His cousin James.
(c) Uncle Ty.
(d) Uncle Albert.

4. In Chapter 8, what is standing in the way of Jones attending the university he wants to attend?
(a) He has not taken the appropriate entry exams to apply to the university.
(b) He and his mother can not afford the tuition, even with financial aid.
(c) His grandmother has forbidden him to go to college.
(d) He does not want to fly on a plane to get there.

5. In Chapter 7, where does the man next to Jones at the library computer terminals ask Jones to meet him?
(a) In the gay bar downtown.
(b) In the bookstore about a ten-minute walk from the library.
(c) In the last stall of the library restroom.
(d) In his own house a few blocks away.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 6, why is Jones's mother upset about what she finds on Jones's computer?

2. In Chapter 1, what does Jones think about all the time?

3. In Chapter 3, who is the man who is killed whose death Jones sees reported on the news?

4. 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?

5. In the Prelude, what kind of hairstyle does Jones's mother wear?

(see the answer key)

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