"The Watsons go to Birmingham" Ch. 4-6 Quiz

Why does Mrs. Watson make her children wear so many coats during the winter?

• She likes to see them waddle around.
• She thinks the cold will kill them.
• She is plain crazy.
• The book never says.

When they get to school, Byron has to help Joetta get out of her coats.

• True
• False

How does Kenny and Rufus know that Larry Dunn for sure stole and was wearing Kenny's gloves?

• Larry is almost always the one to steal Kenny's things.
• Larry Dunn admitted to stealing the gloves.
• The black coloring of "Larry's gloves" was coming off of Kenny's brown gloves. 

If she catches Byron playing with matches, Mrs. Watson threatens to

• burn his fingers
• ground him for a week
• send him to military school
• make him take a fire safety class

Joey successfully prevented Mrs. Watson from going through with Byron’s punishment.

• True
• False

Joey keep blowing out the match. How many times in total does Momma try to burn Byron's fingers?

• 5
• 4
• 3
• The book never says

Why do Kenny and Byron think their family is now on welfare?

• Momma tells them that they need to move
• Dad served them "lumpy" milk and made them it "loaf of bread" cheese
• Joetta went to Sunday School three times a week
• Momma had them go to the store and sign for food rather than using money

“Leave it to Daddy Cool to kill a bird, then give it a funeral. Leave it to Daddy Cool to torture human kids at school all day long and never have his conscience bother him but to feel sorry for a stupid little grayish brown bird.I don‟t know, I really wished I was as smart as some people thought I was, cause some of the time it was real hard to understand what was going on with Byron” (85).
What do you think is going on with Byron?

• Byron is a bully – nothing more and nothing less – and he was only crying because he puked up a bag and a half of Swedish Crème cookies and chunks of green apple.
• Who knows. I mean, can anyone really ever understand another human being?
• Byron is an emotionally disturbed little boy who does not receive enough positive attention.
• Byron really likes mourning doves.

How does Byron kill the morning dove?

• By lighting it on fire
• By throwing a cookie at it and hitting it in the chest
• By getting Kenny to chase it like a cat

Several times throughout the novel, this phrase is repeated, making it a motif (recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story):
(PS: we will talk more about this in the coming chapters)

• “Cash rules everything around me.”
• “I ride in the front, ya dig?”
• “Read, aim, fire!"
• "Give my regards to Clark, Poindexter."