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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Chapters 18 - 21).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 4, what does Jones's grandmother often call him affectionately?
(a) Cy.
(b) Boy.
(c) Cedrick.
(d) Darling.

2. In Chapter 18, who picks up Jones at the airport in Memphis?
(a) His cousin.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) His grandfather.
(d) His Uncle Albert and Aunt Kim.

3. In Chapter 10, what does Jones think about the way his mother looks as they go together to drop him off at college?
(a) She looks wealthy.
(b) She looks like the kind of women you would see in New York City.
(c) She looks sad.
(d) She looks ill.

4. In Chapter 6, why is the main figure in the play Jones sees in high school targeted and beaten to death?
(a) He is gay.
(b) He is a Muslim.
(c) He is black.
(d) He is poor.

5. In Chapter 20, why does Jones feel so badly about what he receives in the mail?
(a) He feels the note from his mother's lover is an invasion of her privacy.
(b) He wishes he could have used the life insurance money from his mother to help her while she was still alive.
(c) He never wrote to his mother, so he feels guilty about receiving a letter from her.
(d) He feels guilty about receiving his mother's belongings because he never bought her anything.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kinds of books does Jones particularly like to read as a child?

2. In Chapter 7, what does Jones do for most of his time at the public library?

3. Where is Chapter 1 set?

4. In Chapter 15, what does Jones do for his attacker on New Year's Eve before leaving his apartment?

5. In Chapter 19, what does Jones write his mother would have done if she had been there with him?

(see the answer key)

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