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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Roy eventually do to his pet mouse?
(a) Set it free from the cardboard box.
(b) Incinerated it with the welder's torch.
(c) Stepped on it.
(d) Trapped it in the wheel well he was constructing.

2. As Brown hung around in the Cab Shop, what did he do?
(a) Read magazines.
(b) Fell asleep.
(c) Drank beer.
(d) Smoked marijuana.

3. What motivated Hamper to make the honor roll during his freshmen year of high school?
(a) A desire not to disappoint his mother.
(b) His dream of becoming an ambulance driver.
(c) A desire to get out of Flint.
(d) An attraction to girls.

4. How was Hamper's new high school significantly different from his old one?
(a) Most of the kids were not middle-class.
(b) Most of the kids were motivated to get good careers.
(c) Most of the kids were middle-class.
(d) Most of the kids were not religious.

5. What did Hamper do when people criticized him for drinking on the job?
(a) He was quick to defend himself.
(b) He was hurt because what they said was true.
(c) He thought they were hypocrites.
(d) He laughed and ignored them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Oftentimes, when was a woman placed on the assembly line?

2. Who did Denny and Hamper listen to during their one elusively magical lunch break (pg 58)?

3. When a would-be employee arrived late and was rejected, what did he do?

4. What was the job Hamper first wanted to have?

5. What did Hamper discover when he began to write poetry?

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