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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How can Spunk's clothes best be described?
(a) Flashy.
(b) Ill-fitting.
(c) Well-sewn.
(d) Ragged.

2. How can the community where this story takes place be described?
(a) All African-American.
(b) Impoverished.
(c) Gentrified.
(d) Mostly White, with one African-American neighborhood.

3. What instrument does Spunk play?
(a) Piano.
(b) Guitar.
(c) Saxophone.
(d) Trumpet.

4. What weapon does Spunk claim Joe had, in Chapter 2?
(a) A meatax.
(b) A hammer.
(c) A pistol.
(d) A knife.

5. Who shoots Joe?
(a) It is unclear.
(b) Spunk.
(c) Lena.
(d) Joe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lena do in Chapter 4?

2. Who does Spunk send home in Chapter 2?

3. Where does Spunk say he will go right after he dies?

4. What happens to what the community brings to the wake?

5. What do Elijah's friends call him?

(see the answer key)

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