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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does the narrator describe Jimmy's state of mind when he goes with Crab?
(a) Resistant.
(b) Hostile.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Willing.

6. What does Crab do for Mama Jean?
(a) Bring food and drink.
(b) Threaten her.
(c) Fix the sink.
(d) Give her money.

7. How long has Jimmy lived with Mama Jean?
(a) A year.
(b) A couple of years.
(c) All his life.
(d) Since he was a child.

8. How long has this gap between intention and action been going on, as the novel begins?
(a) Years.
(b) A few days.
(c) A month or two.
(d) A few weeks.

9. What does Mama Jean make before packing Jimmy's things?
(a) Dinner.
(b) Cookies.
(c) A cake.
(d) Lunch.

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

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

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

13. Where is Jimmy sent when he arrives at school?
(a) Biology.
(b) Gym.
(c) English.
(d) Detention.

14. Why is Jimmy's class dismissed early?
(a) The school closes early on Wednesdays.
(b) They are dismissed for summer.
(c) They have to put on the show.
(d) They finish their tests.

15. What does Crab do when Cookie knocks on the door?
(a) Keeps silent and makes Jimmy be silent too.
(b) Hides in the living room.
(c) Tells her to go away.
(d) Runs out.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mama Jean tell Jimmy?

2. Who does Crab say fingered him for the crime?

3. What does Cookie tell Jimmy?

4. Where does this person live?

5. How does Crab's arrival change things for Jimmy? He is thrust into a role he has never played. He is no longer free. He has to use all his resources just to keep himself safe. He is constantly in danger and is overwhelmed by it.

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