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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11, 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the author awkwardly questioned about in Chapter 10?
(a) His deepest secrets.
(b) His dreams and ambitions in life.
(c) His sex life.
(d) His home life.

2. What does the author describe at the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) A lake.
(b) The author's dream.
(c) Christmas.
(d) The family's return to Florida.

3. What was the author habitually late for in Chapter 10?
(a) The bus.
(b) School.
(c) Work.
(d) Dinner.

4. What has the author gained between the time he writes about these events to the time in which they actually took place?
(a) Contempt.
(b) Maturity.
(c) Patience.
(d) Insight.

5. What did the author and his family salvage in Chapter 6?
(a) A plant.
(b) Usable wood.
(c) Their car.
(d) A newspaper article.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chapter 10 narrate?

2. What was the prize for the competition the author and Tobey competed in?

3. What was the author's family's cleaning lady's name, who lived in Harlem?

4. What was Ligget's punishment?

5. When was the author confronted by a teacher at Southbury?

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