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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 was in the Dixie cup that Ron handed to his teacher?
(a) Worms from the schoolyard.
(b) Nails.
(c) His urine.
(d) Pencil shavings.

2. 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) That things could only get better.
(b) That he was at a dead-end.
(c) Like he was living "high on the hog."
(d) Like things were okay and he would survive.

3. What does "the Man" mean?
(a) A wealthy landowner who shares equally in the profits and losses with his sharecroppers.
(b) A wealthy man from "old money."
(c) Someone who rents the land he farms and struggles to make a profit.
(d) A landowner who forces workers to harvest his crops and pays them with credit that they spend at his company store.

4. In which state is the plantation that Denver worked as a teenager?
(a) Louisiana.
(b) Texas.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) Georgia.

5. What affliction affected Ron's father when Ron was a child?
(a) He suffered a head injury and lost his memory.
(b) He became deaf.
(c) He became an alcoholic.
(d) He lost an arm in a machinery accident.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the white woman stranded with car trouble do when the boys attacked Denver?

2. What thoughts about the homeless did Ron have as he flew in a private jet over Fort Worth and looked down on the city?

3. During his time working as a sharecropper picking cotton, what did Denver receive instead of a paycheck?

4. What part of Ron's body ached as he endured the humiliating punishment from his teacher?

5. How many years did Denver work the cotton fields?

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