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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Crab park the car when they stop?
(a) Right in front, with the engine idling.
(b) Behind the building, out of sight.
(c) Off to the side of the filling station.
(d) Slanting across a few parking places.

3. Why does Crab say he was not involved in the crime?
(a) He had told the thieves he had given up stealing.
(b) He had a toothache that day.
(c) He was not in that town that day.
(d) He was with one of the thieves' girlfriends.

4. What is Jimmy doing when the novel begins?
(a) Going to sleep.
(b) Getting out of bed.
(c) Doing homework.
(d) Eating dinner.

5. What does Mama Jean tell Jimmy?
(a) He does not have to go.
(b) He should call the police if he needs help.
(c) He had better be good.
(d) He will be stronger after this has happened.

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

7. What does Crab tell Jimmy about his time in jail?
(a) He was always fighting.
(b) He learned to feel sorry for what he had done.
(c) He read a lot of books.
(d) He was sick.

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

9. What does Mama Jean offer Jimmy?
(a) Money.
(b) A place to come back to.
(c) Secrets about Crab.
(d) Contacts in Chicago.

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

11. Who died in the events for which Crab was arrested?
(a) A woman.
(b) A fellow thief.
(c) A child.
(d) A guard.

12. What does Cookie give Jimmy?
(a) Food.
(b) An umbrella.
(c) A drink.
(d) Books.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened in spite of Jimmy's intention?

2. What does Crab admit openly?

3. Why does Jimmy want to borrow someone's notebook?

4. Where does this person live?

5. What is Mama Jean's relation to Jimmy?

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