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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who is Cookie?
(a) Jimmy's neighbor.
(b) Jimmy's teacher.
(c) Jimmy's aunt.
(d) Jimmy's father.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mama Jean tell Jimmy?

2. Where does Crab appear from?

3. What impression do we get of Jimmy's personality?

4. What does Mama Jean make before packing Jimmy's things?

5. What changes Mama Jean's mood?

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