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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 175 - 211).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the narrator's sister particularly fascinated with regarding Howard Hughes?
(a) His shoes.
(b) His handkerchief.
(c) His hat.
(d) His tie.

2. Who wrote "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"?
(a) James Baldwin.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) Zadie Smith.
(d) Toni Morrison.

3. Why did Howard Hughes come to Tim's Creek, according to the narrator's mother?
(a) To try to find out what happened to her brother.
(b) To apologize for firing her mother.
(c) To explain a lawsuit to her.
(d) To ask her to cook for him.

4. What does Percy do that he thinks makes the hog retaliate?
(a) He kicks the hog.
(b) He tells other people about the hog.
(c) He threatens to sell the hog.
(d) He threatens to eat the hog.

5. Who is the first other person who can seem to see the hog besides Percy?
(a) Mitchell Stevens.
(b) Ab Batts.
(c) Rose Terrell.
(d) Marshall Wendry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ed usually wear that most other men do not wear?

2. What name does Ed hear the crowd call the music celebrity who emerges from the fancy car?

3. Who in Marisol's family was kidnapped back in Mexico?

4. What does the music star ask Ed to do for him and the other people in the room?

5. Who flanks the music star into the building amid the cheering crowd, which Ed witnesses?

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