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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does this tell Crab after this visit?

2. Does Jimmy keep the fact that he made a phone call secret?

3. Where do Crab and Jimmy go when they arrive?

4. Who does Jimmy think about while he is alone?

5. Where does Jimmy go out to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jimmy do when Crab is distracted?

2. What do Crab and Jimmy do in the morning?

3. How does Jimmy find out that Crab is sick?

4. Why does Crab tell Jimmy to go to the room and stay there alone all night?

5. What does Crab do when Jimmy gets back with the aspirin he asked him to get?

6. What does Jimmy think about when he thinks of Mama Jean?

7. What happens to Crab and Jimmy on their way out of Chicago?

8. Where do Crab and Jimmy go after they secure a place to stay?

9. What does the conjure man tell Crab?

10. Where does Jimmy go to collect Crab, and how do they pass the night?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the conflict between Jimmy's desires and his father's desires. What does Jimmy want to know, as opposed to his father wanting him to know the truth about his arrest? How does the conflict make each character's desires clearer to them? How are they reconciled?

Essay Topic 2

What kind of morality or values does Jimmy learn from his experience with his father? Does he learn to respect the law? Does he learn not to? What law does he learn to respect? How does he learn this? How does it change or define the beliefs he had in the beginning?

Essay Topic 3

In what ways is Mama Jean a better parent than Crab? In what ways is she not? What does Crab teach Jimmy that Mama Jean could not, and vice versa?

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