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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 95-140.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jimmy find when he returns?
(a) Crab is passed out.
(b) Crab is in pain.
(c) Crab is angry at him for being gone so long.
(d) Crab is gone.

2. 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 keep living with Mama Jean.
(d) Whether he wants to go to school.

3. Where is Jimmy's father?
(a) Prison.
(b) Europe.
(c) Australia.
(d) Dead.

4. What does he think about this person?
(a) Whether he'll ever see him again.
(b) How much he misses her.
(c) What she must be like.
(d) When he'll see her again.

5. What does Mama Jean say when she comes in?
(a) She is apologetic that Jimmy hasn't been going to school.
(b) She is upset, and runs out.
(c) She is glad to see Crab.
(d) She is afraid of the man with Jimmy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe Jimmy's state of mind when he goes with Crab?

2. How long has this gap between intention and action been going on, as the novel begins?

3. Why does Jimmy have a hard time getting to school?

4. Who is Frank?

5. What does Crab ask Jimmy to do?

(see the answer key)

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