Cell One Reading Quiz

Nnamabia robbed his parents' house to ...

• Frighten them.

• prove himself to his friends

• steal and sell his mother's jewelry.

• take money he owed to someone

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How does the narrator describe the professors’ sons?

• They are popular and get away with committing petty crimes.

• They struggle socially and commit crimes to gain popularity.

• They feel neglected by their parents and steal to get attention.

• They don’t have much and steal to gain material things.

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Nnamabia’s parents…

• have punished him for repeated dishonest actions.

• have grown increasingly worried about their son’s choices.

• have lectured their daughter about staying away from her brother.

• have looked past their son’s choices to give him new opportunities.

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The narrator claims that the boys belonging to cults…

• are committing increasingly serious and violent crimes.

• don’t realize what they are getting themselves into.

• are largely harmless and commit small crimes.

• are forced to join the cults by other members.

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Why is Nnamabia arrested?

• He takes part in the shooting.

• He is believed to be part of a cult.

• He helps steal the professor’s Mercedes.

• He is caught breaking into a home.

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How does Nnamabia respond to being arrested?

• He is frightened about what will happen to him when he runs out of money.

• He believes time in prison will help him grow up.

• He’s embarrassed that he got himself into such a bad situation.

• He doesn’t seem to take the situation very seriously.

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Nnamabia and his fellow prisoners are…

• threatened with violence and don’t receive basic necessities.

• tortured for information about the crimes they committed.

• on the verge of death because of malnourishment.

• allowed ample freedoms and treated with general respect by the guards.

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Why do the narrator’s parents act differently about the police?

• They appreciate how the police have been treating Nnamabia.

• They don’t want to risk their own safety by criticizing the police.

• They don’t want to do anything to risk Nnamabia’s release.

• They don’t want to negatively influence the narrator with their opinions.

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Why is Nnamabia preoccupied with the old man?

• The old man is innocent and treated poorly by the others.

• The old man reminds Nnamabia of his own father.

• The old man is kind to Nnamabia and the other prisoners.

• The old man doesn’t have the same freedoms as Nnamabia.

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Nnamabia doesn’t eat his rice, and he seems…

• to be ill from his time in prison.

• to want to stop eating as a protest.

• distraught over the treatment of the old man.

• to feel guilty about the luxuries he has.

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