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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Chapters 18 - 21).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 8, what event is going on in New York City when Jones visits for the first time as a child?
(a) The Thanksgiving Day Parade.
(b) St. Patrick's Day.
(c) The Olympics.
(d) Pride Month.

2. In Chapter 16, why does Jones's mother say they do not eat coconut cake in their family?
(a) Because everyone hated coconut.
(b) Because it was the last cake they ate before her father died.
(c) Because his grandmother was slicing a coconut cake when they heard Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated.
(d) Because many of them were allergic to coconut.

3. In Part Four, what does Jones's mother say she does not have regarding him?
(a) Anger.
(b) Patience.
(c) Hurt.
(d) Regrets.

4. In Chapter 8, how does Jones feel after telling his mother about his scholarship to college?
(a) Guilty.
(b) Angry, because she did not react the way he thought she would.
(c) Good, but disappointed that it does not make a bigger difference to her health.
(d) Suspicious.

5. In Chapter 4, what word does Jones's grandmother use to describe him in a negative way?
(a) Frosty.
(b) Wordly.
(c) Arrogant.
(d) Uppity.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 18, what does Jones smell from the man next to him on the plane?

2. In Chapter 11, what does Jones tell his friends about his relationship with his mother that shocks many of them?

3. In Part Four, what grocery store does Jones's mother write that she often went to for food when he was a child?

4. In Chapter 9, who does Jones's mother sometimes call out for in her sleep?

5. In Chapter 16, why does Jones set the schedule he does for himself?

(see the answer key)

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