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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. Where is the university Jones attends in Chapter 10 located?
(a) Atlanta, Georgia.
(b) Huston, Texas.
(c) New York City.
(d) Bowling Green, Kentucky.

2. In Chapter 16, why does Jones's mother say they do not eat coconut cake in their family?
(a) Because everyone hated coconut.
(b) Because many of them were allergic to coconut.
(c) Because it was the last cake they ate before her father died.
(d) Because his grandmother was slicing a coconut cake when they heard Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated.

3. Where does Jones's mother work in Chapter 1?
(a) A law office.
(b) McDonald's.
(c) City Hall.
(d) The airport.

4. In Chapter 8, where does Jones get accepted to college and where he desperately would like to attend?
(a) Princeton.
(b) Yale.
(c) New York University.
(d) Columbia University?

5. In Chapter 12, what kinds of things does the Botanist say during sex with Jones that disturbs Jones?
(a) Romantic things.
(b) Racist things.
(c) Things about his own wife.
(d) Things about his own childhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 18, what does Jones remember his grandmother teasing his mother about during a recent visit they all had in Memphis?

2. In Chapter 16, what strikes Jones as a common thread between gay, black, and male poets?

3. In Chapter 8, what does Jones's mother point out to him on the street in New York?

4. In Chapter 16, why does Jones set the schedule he does for himself?

5. In Chapter 6, who is the play Jones sees in high school primarily about?

(see the answer key)

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