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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 35 to 38.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Denver manage to come back from Colorado with so much money?
(a) He slept in the car and ate cheaply.
(b) He won money gambling.
(c) He panhandled on the trip.
(d) He spent only his own money.

2. After three years of hard work and debt due to sharecropping, what did Uncle James do?
(a) He moved into a mission and helped in exchange for room and board.
(b) He became homeless on the streets of Fort Worth.
(c) He moved to a plantation.
(d) He became the Man.

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

4. For what reasons did Ron decide that Granddaddy was "the Man"?
(a) He was in debt at the company store and could not make a profit on his land.
(b) Because Uncle James told him so.
(c) He hired blacks and whites to work for him, but fed the whites at the farmhouse and the blacks at the grocery store.
(d) He came from "old money."

5. What name did Deborah and Ron mistakenly call Denver?
(a) Dayton.
(b) Dallas.
(c) Devore.
(d) Duncan.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which state is the plantation that Denver worked as a teenager?

2. Why did Ron dress differently than the other students when he was college?

3. What ethnicity were the "good ole boys" described in Chapter 1: Denver?

4. What sort of place did Tim Taylor run, welcoming the needy to free events there?

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

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