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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jimmy's domestic situation?
(a) He is abused.
(b) He is left to fend for himself.
(c) He is well cared for.
(d) He is doted on, almost smothered.

2. What does Crab tell Jimmy about the trip to Chicago?
(a) He never planned to make it.
(b) He heard that his job there disappeared.
(c) He will get there after going to see Arkansas.
(d) He could never have done that job anyway.

3. Why does Jimmy want to borrow someone's notebook?
(a) To catch up on homework.
(b) To copy their answers.
(c) To get paper to write a note to the teacher.
(d) To distract himself from what the teacher is saying.

4. What is Jimmy's intention as the novel begins?
(a) To skip school.
(b) To go to school.
(c) To get good grades.
(d) To see his father.

5. What does Crab have in Chicago?
(a) A job.
(b) A school for Jimmy.
(c) A business.
(d) A wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Crab do for Mama Jean?

2. Who do Crab and Jimmy see at this place?

3. Where does Crab arrange to take a room?

4. What does Jimmy find when he returns?

5. What has changed with Crab's death?

(see the answer key)

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