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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did friendship mean to Denver?
(a) A new kind of family.
(b) It meant nothing.
(c) A bond between men that could not be trusted.
(d) A commitment to fight together or die together.

2. What did Deborah tell Ron she saw in a dream?
(a) Instructions from God to go volunteer with the needy.
(b) The face of a man who would save the city.
(c) Her son in heaven.
(d) A woman called Big Mama who would help Denver.

3. 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) Like he was living "high on the hog."
(c) That he was at a dead-end.
(d) That things could only get better.

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

5. Who was supposed to receive the Dixie cup Ron handed to his teacher by mistake?
(a) The science teacher.
(b) The principal.
(c) The school nurse.
(d) A scientist in the front office.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who helped Deborah plan special events for the needy?

2. What name did Deborah and Ron mistakenly call Denver?

3. How soon after arriving in Fort Worth did Denver meet Deborah?

4. What did Ron give Deborah after he became wealthy to make her forgive him for using her stock?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. While Deborah was in the final days of her life and in terrible pain, what message from God did Denver deliver to Ron?

2. For the Colorado trip, Ron trusted Denver but feared he might not return. Describe the valuable items with which Denver was entrusted.

3. How did Denver's encounter with the white woman with a flat tire impact his life?

4. Describe how Ron felt when he looks back on Miss Poe's punishment 26 years earlier?

5. When Denver was changing the white woman's tire in Chapter 1: Denver, why did he stand up to let the white boys know he is there?

6. How and why did Ron dress differently from his peers in college?

7. Explain how Ron and Denver became friends.

8. In the final chapters of the book, explain the relationship that had developed between Ron and Denver.

9. Explain the conflict over white women between the "good ole' boys" and black men during the time that Denver was growing up in Louisiana.

10. Describe how Rocky, Deborah's palomino pony, was used during Deborah's funeral and what Denver did after the ceremony was completed.

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