2. What was Crab arrested for?
(a) Mail fraud.
(b) Hitting someone with his car.
(c) Robbing an armored car and killing a man.
(d) Dealing drugs.

3. What is Jimmy's race?
(a) Asian.
(b) Black.
(c) White.
(d) Hispanic.

4. Why does Jimmy have a hard time getting to school?
(a) The school is hard to find.
(b) The kinds beat him up.
(c) He does not speak good English.
(d) He feels lost there.

5. Where does this person live?
(a) Nebraska.
(b) New York.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Arkansas.

6. What do Jimmy and Crab eat when they stop?
(a) Dinner.
(b) Breakfast.
(c) Lunch.
(d) A snack.

7. What is Jimmy's response to the move to Chicago?
(a) He is terrified and does not want to go.
(b) He is hesitant and frightened, but does not feel he can stand up for himself.
(c) He does not fight it.
(d) He is ready to go, without any regrets.

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

9. What happened in spite of Jimmy's intention?
(a) He could not pass his tests.
(b) He always forced himself to go.
(c) He got lost.
(d) He did not make it to school.

10. What does Crab admit openly?
(a) That he is a thief.
(b) That he murdered men.
(c) That he is dying.
(d) That he is always afraid of being caught.

11. What are Crab's plans after proving his innocence?
(a) He plans to set up a house in California.
(b) He plans to get a job and straighten himself out.
(c) He plans to get Jimmy involved in his crimes.
(d) This has not been revealed yet. He plans to go to court to prove his innocence there.

12. What does Jimmy do instead of going to school?
(a) Goes to the movies.
(b) Play games with other truants.
(c) Writes stories.
(d) Wanders around the city.

13. Who fingered Crab for the crime?
(a) The girlfriend of one of the thieves.
(b) The policeman who arrested the thieves.
(c) The man who killed the man.
(d) The station manager at the filling station where the thieves filled up after the crime.

14. What changes Mama Jean's mood?
(a) She learns that Jimmy has to be punished for being absent so much.
(b) She learns that Jimmy's father has been released from prison.
(c) She learns that Jimmy's father is going to send her some money for Jimmy.
(d) She learns that Crab wants to take Jimmy to Chicago.

15. What does Crab want Jimmy to know about him?
(a) That he should never have made the decisions that led him into crime.
(b) That he is not a killer.
(c) That he had done worse things that had not been punished.
(d) That he had not protected himself against being framed.