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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 45-62.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jerry do to the knife?
(a) He stabs Peter.
(b) He puts it in his pocket.
(c) He stabs himself again.
(d) He wipes it clean of Peter's fingerprints.

2. What does he do afterward?
(a) He runs upstairs.
(b) He cries.
(c) He hugs the dog.
(d) He takes the dog to a veterinarian.

3. Why does his mother walk out on his father when he was ten-and-a-half-years old?
(a) To find a better life.
(b) To sleep with many men in the southern United States.
(c) To protect her son.
(d) To get revenge on his father.

4. Who says that he has seen 'those cards'?
(a) The mayor
(b) Jerry
(c) Peter
(d) The police officer

5. What is one of Jerry's walls made from?
(a) Oak
(b) Brick
(c) Cedar
(d) Beaverboard

Short Answer Questions

1. What can Jerry not stand to do?

2. Why does Jerry think Peter should understand everything he's said?

3. When Jerry was fifteen, what did he say that he was?

4. When Jerry shares that he doesn't like to talk to people all the time, Peter wonders if he is to be the _________ for the day.

5. What does Jerry do in response to Peter's accusation that Jerry is mad?

(see the answer key)

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