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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 30-55.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jimmy suspect Crab was really doing when Jimmy woke up on the road?
(a) Planning another heist.
(b) Robbing a filling station.
(c) Meeting up with an old girlfriend.
(d) Preparing to ditch him on the road.

2. What makes Crab uneasy when they stop?
(a) He sees someone he had a fight with.
(b) A policeman.
(c) The tires are nearly flat.
(d) Smoke from the engine.

3. What are Jimmy's feelings about his father?
(a) He is wary of his promises.
(b) He is still unsure how to feel.
(c) He is impressed by his bravado.
(d) He is resentful about his absence.

4. Where is Jimmy's mother?
(a) Dead.
(b) She is gone.
(c) Europe.
(d) Prison.

5. What does the narrator say Jimmy's father never asked him?
(a) If he cared whether he had killed a man or not.
(b) What his mother was like.
(c) How he ended up with Mama Jean.
(d) How he got convicted when he hadn't committed the crime.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mama Jean's relation to Jimmy?

2. What does Mama Jean make before packing Jimmy's things?

3. What does Mama Jean offer Jimmy?

4. What is Jimmy's status in Crab's eyes?

5. Who is the man who talks to Jimmy?

(see the answer key)

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