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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 141-168.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Frank?
(a) Mavis' son.
(b) Crab's son.
(c) Crab's brother.
(d) Mavis' brother.

2. What does Crab suggest to Jimmy?
(a) That they should go live with Mavis and Frank.
(b) That they should go wherever Jimmy wants to go.
(c) That they should go to California.
(d) That they should move back to New York.

3. What does the man ask Jimmy?
(a) Whether he wants to run away.
(b) Whether he is satisfied that he is Jimmy's father.
(c) Whether he wants to go to school.
(d) Whether he wants to keep living with Mama Jean.

4. Who fingered Crab for the crime?
(a) The policeman who arrested the thieves.
(b) The man who killed the man.
(c) The station manager at the filling station where the thieves filled up after the crime.
(d) The girlfriend of one of the thieves.

5. What does Cookie tell Jimmy?
(a) That he is going to fail.
(b) That he is a school hero.
(c) That he is in trouble.
(d) That someone has been looking for him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has changed with Crab's death?

2. What does Crab tell Jimmy about the next place they stop?

3. How would you characterize Rydell's response?

4. What is Jimmy's status at the end of the novel?

5. Who is Mavis?

(see the answer key)

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