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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens in the bingo game that Victor discusses after his experience with the waitress?
(a) He has B-6 remaining and the caller shouts B-7 and everyone else wins.
(b) The caller keeps calling numbers that are not on his card.
(c) The numbers on his card do not match the letters.
(d) He does not have any markers to place over the numbers.

2. What does Victor's teacher want him to do in the second grade?
(a) To apologize for everything and cut off his braids.
(b) To do his homework at school because she does not think he is doing his own work.
(c) To write with his right hand and wear cleaner clothing.
(d) To perform math problems on the board in front of the class and testify before the state court about how his parents are mistreating him.

3. What is Victor's aunt's reaction to her husband and son's treatment during the mouse incident?
(a) She is sad.
(b) She is ambivalent.
(c) She is outraged.
(d) She is thankful.

4. Why does Victor take baby James home to take care of him?
(a) Because he is friends with the baby's father.
(b) Because he is the baby's father.
(c) Because he ends up on welfare anyway.
(d) Because there are no immediate relatives.

5. What happens when Victor drives into a wealthy neighborhood?
(a) Several people ask him what he is doing there.
(b) His car breaks down.
(c) He is pulled over by a police officer.
(d) People stare at him.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Victor describe Uncle Moses?

2. Why is Victor's friend able to afford beer for the party at the lake?

3. What "crime" does Thomas Builds-a-Fire commit twenty years ago?

4. What is Victor's father's view on war?

5. What does Victor imagine happens to Christopher Columbus?

(see the answer key)

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