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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Jimmy want to borrow someone's notebook?
(a) To distract himself from what the teacher is saying.
(b) To copy their answers.
(c) To get paper to write a note to the teacher.
(d) To catch up on homework.

2. What is Jimmy's class preparing for?
(a) A theatre performance.
(b) Graduation.
(c) Field day.
(d) Achievement tests.

3. What does Crab want Jimmy to know about him?
(a) That he should never have made the decisions that led him into crime.
(b) That he had not protected himself against being framed.
(c) That he had done worse things that had not been punished.
(d) That he is not a killer.

4. What do Jimmy and Crab eat when they stop?
(a) Dinner.
(b) Lunch.
(c) A snack.
(d) Breakfast.

5. Who is the man who talks to Jimmy?
(a) The Guidance Counselor.
(b) The Principal.
(c) His father.
(d) His uncle.

6. Why did this person shift the blame to Crab?
(a) Because he had prior convictions, and would be sentenced to life this time.
(b) To avoid it himself.
(c) Because he knew that he could get away with it.
(d) Because he had made so much money, he could afford to quit crime for good now.

7. Where does Crab appear from?
(a) A restaurant.
(b) The bushes.
(c) Down the road.
(d) A house.

8. What is Mama Jean's relation to Jimmy?
(a) Family friend.
(b) Sister.
(c) Mother.
(d) Neighbor.

9. What does Jimmy say when he sees Crab acting odd?
(a) He does not say anything.
(b) He says that he wants to take care of Crab.
(c) He says that he wants to help Crab make things right.
(d) He says that he wants to go home.

10. What was Crab arrested for?
(a) Mail fraud.
(b) Robbing an armored car and killing a man.
(c) Dealing drugs.
(d) Hitting someone with his car.

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

12. What do Mama Jean and Crab talk about?
(a) Mama Jean's sacrifices for Jimmy.
(b) The past.
(c) Jimmy's future.
(d) Jimmy's truancy.

13. What impression do we get of Jimmy's personality?
(a) He has beautiful dreams, but gets angry when he cannot realize them as he sees them.
(b) He is devious and untrustworthy.
(c) He thinks about killing himself out of despair.
(d) He wants to do the right thing, but is unmotivated.

14. What changes Mama Jean's mood?
(a) She learns that Jimmy's father has been released from prison.
(b) She learns that Jimmy has to be punished for being absent so much.
(c) She learns that Jimmy's father is going to send her some money for Jimmy.
(d) She learns that Crab wants to take Jimmy to Chicago.

15. Why does Crab have to leave as soon as possible?
(a) Some criminals.
(b) His money is running out.
(c) His parole.
(d) He is running from the law.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cookie tell Jimmy?

2. Why does Crab want to take Jimmy to see this person?

3. What is Jimmy doing when the novel begins?

4. Who died in the events for which Crab was arrested?

5. Why does Jimmy have a hard time getting to school?

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