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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 18 to 28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Ron's upscale art gallery in Fort Worth not post the prices of the paintings they had for sale?
(a) It was considered inappropriate to post prices on very expensive art.
(b) The prices were negotiable and buyers always bargained with sellers of fine art.
(c) Greasy, smelly homeless people wandered the area.
(d) Ron believed it was bad luck to post price tags on the paintings.

2. During his time working as a sharecropper picking cotton, what did Denver receive instead of a paycheck?
(a) A shack and supplies on which he made payments to the Man.
(b) Four square meals a day at the farmhouse kitchen table.
(c) Room and board in the Man's house.
(d) A new bike every Christmas.

3. What is the term used to describe the farm owned by Ron's family?
(a) Blackland.
(b) Cottonshare.
(c) Sharecropper.
(d) Cottongain.

4. What sort of place did Tim Taylor run, welcoming the needy to free events there?
(a) A soup kitchen.
(b) A smoky jazz and blues lounge.
(c) A comedy club.
(d) A playhouse.

5. What punishment did Ron's teacher inflict on him for his honest mistake in second grade?
(a) She forced him to read a letter of apology in front of the entire class.
(b) She made him press his nose against the wall.
(c) She took away his desk and made him sit on the floor for the entire year.
(d) She pulled down his pants and spanked him in front of his classmates.

Short Answer Questions

1. Denver recalled stories from his childhood about black men being fed to a gator for doing what?

2. What did Deborah witness a large black man complaining about being stolen from him?

3. How did the white boys who attacked Denver nearly kill him?

4. What were the names of Ron's parents?

5. What did Ron do for a living before becoming a successful and wealthy art dealer?

(see the answer key)

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