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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 141-168.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does he think about this person?
(a) Whether he'll ever see him again.
(b) How much he misses her.
(c) When he'll see her again.
(d) What she must be like.

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 got convicted when he hadn't committed the crime.
(c) How he ended up with Mama Jean.
(d) What his mother was like.

3. What does Jimmy say about knowing the truth about the robbery?
(a) That it doesn't matter.
(b) That is loves Crab no matter what happened.
(c) That he wants to go to school to learn things for himself.
(d) That he doesn't trust Crab, and wants evidence that he should.

4. What is Jimmy's opinion of Crab?
(a) He is a victim of his own life.
(b) He is innocent of everything.
(c) He is a criminal whether he or not is a murderer.
(d) He is unlucky.

5. What warning does Jimmy get in response?
(a) To sleep with one eye open.
(b) To watch his back.
(c) To keep his fingers clean.
(d) Not to start any trouble.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jimmy's race?

2. What does Jimmy feel about the place where he'll spend the night?

3. Where do Crab and Jimmy go in the morning?

4. How long has this gap between intention and action been going on, as the novel begins?

5. Where do Crab and Jimmy go from this place?

(see the answer key)

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