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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 30-55.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Crab tell Jimmy about the trip to Chicago?
(a) He heard that his job there disappeared.
(b) He never planned to make it.
(c) He will get there after going to see Arkansas.
(d) He could never have done that job anyway.

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

4. What does the narrator say Jimmy's father never asked him?
(a) If he cared whether he had killed a man or not.
(b) How he ended up with Mama Jean.
(c) How he got convicted when he hadn't committed the crime.
(d) What his mother was like.

5. What does Cookie tell Jimmy?
(a) That he is in trouble.
(b) That he is going to fail.
(c) That he is a school hero.
(d) That someone has been looking for him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Jimmy watch for out the window?

2. What is Jimmy's response to the move to Chicago?

3. Where does Crab appear from?

4. What is Jimmy's race?

5. What do Jimmy and Crab eat when they stop?

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