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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 1-29.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Cookie?
(a) Jimmy's father.
(b) Jimmy's neighbor.
(c) Jimmy's teacher.
(d) Jimmy's aunt.

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

4. How does Jimmy find out who the man is?
(a) He is told by the principal.
(b) He interrogates him.
(c) He sees his driver's license.
(d) He compares his face to some pictures Mama Jean has.

5. What impression do we get of Jimmy's personality?
(a) He is devious and untrustworthy.
(b) He wants to do the right thing, but is unmotivated.
(c) He thinks about killing himself out of despair.
(d) He has beautiful dreams, but gets angry when he cannot realize them as he sees them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jimmy expect from Cookie's news?

2. What is Jimmy's class preparing for?

3. Where is the novel set?

4. What does Crab have in Chicago?

5. What is Jimmy's race?

(see the answer key)

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