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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who fixes Jake's suit?
(a) Frank.
(b) Ruth.
(c) Ariel.
(d) Nathan.

2. What word does Ruth instruct the family to use when talking about Skipper, the dead man the boys had found on the tracks?
(a) Itinerant.
(b) Bum.
(c) Hobo.
(d) Transient.

3. When Ariel suggests she may not attend Juilliard, what alternative does she present to her parents?
(a) Staying at home to help her mother and father finish raising Frank and Jake.
(b) Getting married to Karl Brandt.
(c) Attending Yale University.
(d) Attending Mankato State and continuing to study with Emil Brandt.

4. What is the punishment that Frank and Jake receive as a result of playing at the tracks?
(a) They are not allowed to use the phone for one week.
(b) They have to do Ariel's chores, as well as their own, for one week.
(c) They are not allowed to ride in Karl's sports car for one week.
(d) They are not allowed to leave the yard without permission from a parent for one week.

5. What reason does Frank give for thinking his father might be disappointed to find Frank and Jake reading comic books?
(a) Because he thinks his father disapproves of the content in comic books.
(b) Because he thinks his father sees comic books as a waste of the boys' earned money.
(c) Because he thinks his father wishes they were reading the set of encyclopedias in which he invested.
(d) Because he thinks his father wishes they were doing homework instead.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who first breaks the silence about the dead man on the tracks?

2. Why is Frank surprised when Officer Doyle asks him how he thinks the Minnesota Twins will do this year?

3. How old is Bobby when he is killed?

4. When Officer Doyle, Gus, and Frank pass by the Emil Brandt's house in Officer Doyle's Studebaker, who is sitting on the porch with Emil?

5. How does Jake's suit shoulder get torn?

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