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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jane tell her friends people call Mickey Stallings behind his back in Part One?
(a) Goofy the Dog
(b) Old Man Stallings
(c) The Avenger
(d) Mickey Looney

2. At what time “on the dot” does Buddy’s mother demand that he and his sister show up at the table for dinner each evening, according to the narrator in Part One?
(a) 7:10 p.m.
(b) 7:15 p.m.
(c) 6:15 p.m.
(d) 6:30 p.m.

3. Where does Jane recall her father having been transferred from when they relocated to this town in Part One?
(a) Boston
(b) Berkeley
(c) Shreveport
(d) Monument

4. When the death of the school bully that the Avenger killed is reported in the paper, it is noted that the weapon was stolen from whose apartment a month earlier?
(a) Randy Pierce’s
(b) Louis Kendrick’s
(c) Mickey Stallings’s
(d) Marty Sanders’s

5. The narrator states in the beginning of Part One that the Avenger “did not know [the home invaders’] names, had never seen them before, but he knew who they were. They were regular kids, not sleazies from” where?
(a) Harlem
(b) Rock Point
(c) Boston
(d) Redway

Short Answer Questions

1. Harry’s father is described as having what job position in Part One?

2. On what date does Mickey tell Jane it will be time to plant the tomatoes in Part One?

3. About how long has the Jerome family lived in the town they currently live in, according to the narrator in the beginning of Part One?

4. What is Mickey Stalling’s position in the neighborhood where Jane’s family lives in the novel?

5. What little boy from two doors down from Jane’s house is described as specializing in “riding his bike helter-skelter on the sidewalk” in Part One?

(see the answer key)

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