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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why doesn't Crab get far when he runs?
(a) He gets tired quickly.
(b) The cops threaten to shoot him.
(c) Rydell catches him.
(d) He trips.

2. What is odd about Frank's arranging the rental?
(a) He says that he lives in California.
(b) He says that he has just bought a house in the area.
(c) He uses someone else's name.
(d) He says that Jimmy is his younger brother.

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

4. Who interrupts Crab and Jimmy's argument?
(a) Jessie.
(b) Rydell.
(c) Policemen.
(d) Mavis.

5. What does Jimmy expect from Cookie's news?
(a) That someone is going to complain about his attendance.
(b) That he is going to be expelled.
(c) That his father has come for him.
(d) That he is going to be sent to detention.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mama Jean offer Jimmy?

2. Why does Rydell respond in this way?

3. How much time passes between Crab and Jimmy's evasive maneuvers and resuming their trip?

4. How does the narrator characterize the area where Jimmy wakes up?

5. Where is Jimmy's mother?

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