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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3 to 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What family pet woke Li'l Buddy one night and alerted him to danger in the house?
(a) Dog.
(b) Parrot.
(c) Cat.
(d) Pot-bellied pig.

2. Of what social class was Ron a member while growing up?
(a) Lower-middle class.
(b) Blue-collar middle class.
(c) Upper-middle class.
(d) Upper class.

3. Denver recalled stories from his childhood about black men being fed to a gator for doing what?
(a) Looking at a white woman.
(b) Stealing cotton and selling it in town.
(c) Helping a stranded white woman with car trouble.
(d) Robbing the Man.

4. What was the name of Denver's father?
(a) James.
(b) PawPaw.
(c) Ron.
(d) BB.

5. In Chapter 13, Denver looked back on life as a sharecropper. How did he feel at age 18 in a 2-room shack with a bed, table, stove and an outhouse?
(a) Like things were okay and he would survive.
(b) That things could only get better.
(c) Like he was living "high on the hog."
(d) That he was at a dead-end.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Ron dream of showing how successful he had become as he flew along in a private jet?

2. How did Denver's father die?

3. What was in the Dixie cup that Ron handed to his teacher?

4. Who was called Li'l Buddy, while growing up?

5. Looking back as an adult on the scene with the cruel teacher from his youth, how does Ron feel?

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