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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. Why did Denver fear that something bad would happen to Deborah?
(a) Because she had scorned him.
(b) Because she deserved to be punished.
(c) Because her work was so important to God and Satan.
(d) Because she was too trusting of the homeless.

2. What is the name of the facility where Ron and his wife volunteered their time?
(a) The Red River Parish.
(b) The First Church of Denver.
(c) The Union Gospel Mission.
(d) The Salvation Army.

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

4. Who did Big Mama and PawPaw raise as their own?
(a) Denver, Thurman and Hershalee.
(b) Ron and Deborah.
(c) Earl and Tommye.
(d) James, Bobby and Cousin Chook.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Denver finally make his escape from life on the cotton fields to being homeless in Fort Worth, Texas?

2. How is Ron's mother described?

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

4. In which part of Fort Worth was Ron raised?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how and where Ron learned that President Kennedy had been shot.

2. At the end of the book, where did Ron go to live and why, and why did Denver come with him?

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

4. Explain how sharecropping works and tell about Denver's experience with sharecropping.

5. Explain Deborah and Ron's differing reasons for becoming volunteers at the Union Gospel Mission.

6. When half a million dollars was given to the mission, how did Mary Ellen credit Deborah and what was done with the money?

7. Explain how Denver went about keeping an all-night prayer vigil for Deborah and tell how Ron reacted to the news that Denver was sleeping during the following day.

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

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

10. After Deborah was given only weeks to live, why did Denver say that Deborah "ain't goin nowhere"?

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