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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

4. How trustworthy is Crab in Jimmy's eyes?
(a) This has yet to be determined.
(b) Jimmy is preparing tests to determine how trustworthy Crab is, but he has not come to a conclusion yet.
(c) Jimmy does not trust Crab at all.
(d) Jimmy believes that if Crab is his father, then nothing he did could be wrong.

5. Where is Crab when Jimmy wakes up?
(a) In a bar, talking to a trucker.
(b) Nowhere to be seen.
(c) Going to the bathroom behind a tree.
(d) Outside talking to his friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does this person live?

2. Who fingered Crab for the crime?

3. What does Jimmy suspect Crab was really doing when Jimmy woke up on the road?

4. What does Crab say he was afraid of before he was released?

5. What is Jimmy doing when the novel begins?

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