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1. In "Florida Goes to School", what grade do we find out Florida dropped out of when she was a teenager?
2. Florida and Willona took their first trip to the jail's lockup in "Florida's Protest" when they found out the store was selling expired food. In jail, they met an elderly lady who was also thrown in lockup for causing trouble. What was she in for?
3. The Evans family got sick from a piece of tainted meat that Florida got at the market in "Florida's Protest". Florida and Willona picketed the store and got arrested for demonstrating. After they got out of jail, Florida and James found out that the manager knew the meat was bad but sold it anyway for more money. Did they get revenge?
4. During the 2-parter of "J.J.'s Fiancee", he and his prom date Diane decided to run away to Indiana to elope. When their parents find this out, they also uncover the secret that Diane is a drug addict. When they finally get in contact with J.J., what drug does James tell him she's on?
5. Also in "J.J.'s Fiancee", when the parents found out Diane was a drug addict, James told her father, Fred, if he was going to blame anyone, to blame the ____________.
6. The Evans family got taken for a ride in "The Encyclopedia Hustle" when Mr. Anderson, a blind man sold them a set of encyclopedias on black people in history. He told them it would only cost $5, and it was a big enough stretch to afford that. After Mr. Anderson left, they found out in the fine print they would have to make so many additional payments in a short amount of time, that it was impossible to come up with the money. When Mr. Anderson came back, they told them they wanted out of the deal, so he said he'd call his boss and get them out of it. When he made his phone call, the family found out he was lying.
7. In the episode, "The Lunch Money Ripoff", the Evans family finds out Michael has been giving his lunches to a bully every day. They invite the boy, Eddie, over for dinner, however due to Eddie's disrespectful behavior, James takes it upon him to discipline Eddie.
8. In "The Family Gun", James bought a Saturday night special colt .32 because crime was on the uprise more than ever before in the ghetto. There were more break-ins than usual, more attacks, somebody even stole the washers and dryers from the laundry room. J.J. commented that it was getting so dangerous around there, the Tidy Bowl man was trading his rowboat for what?
9. At the end of part 1 of "The Evans Get Involved", Willona strongly suspects Penny is being abused, but Thelma is still skeptical. What led Willona to believe Penny had been abused?
10. J.J. spied on Thelma and her mystery boyfriend in "Thelma's Brief Encounter", because everybody suspected something was odd about Lloyd only meeting Thelma at lunch. J.J. came home one day and reported to Willona and Michael that at the end of the day, Lloyd returned to a half-way house, a home for ex-convicts half-way between jail and freedom. For what crime had Lloyd been sent to jail?
11. Willona hit the ceiling when it came to talking to Penny about sex in "Stomach Mumps" because her 13-year-old friend, Tina, was pregnant. Florida told Willona that it was high time to teach Penny about what she needed to know, before she learned it wrong and from the wrong people, whereas Willona said that she would tell Penny when she was ready. Florida insisted that Penny had to learn about sex from her mother before it was too late, and she later commented to J.J. that how many teenaged girls got pregnant in the country on a yearly basis?
12. Keith hit the ceiling and the bottle in "The Evans' Dilemma" when he couldn't find a job, and was still sore that he lost his chance at being a football player because of his broken knee. Neither Thelma nor Willona could figure out what was wrong with Keith, but J.J. suspected that any man who can one minute, be angry enough to kill someone, then go into the bathroom and come out a minute later singing like a lark, whatever he could be doing to get happy that fast, couldn't be doing it alone. So J.J. and Michael inspected the bathroom and found Keith was drinking what?
13. Good luck hit the family in "Black Jesus". After J.J. painted a porrait of a black Jesus with Ned the Wino as the model, James got a tax return, giving him enough money to shower his family with presents, Willona got a second date with her 'octopus' man, Michael got $5 from two men, and Thelma got a date. How much money did James try to give Thelma to take on her date?
14. Lenella Gordon returned for Penny in "A Matter of Mothers", but since Penny was legally adopted, she had to make Willona look like an unfit parent to get Penny back. She hired a man, Jeffrey, to pretend he loved Willona, and one night he had a party and invited his 'friends', hustlers, drug pushers, freaks of all sort, including one man who had 'enough drugs to turn on Mount Rushmore'. The cops busted the party up and took everyone out with them, but Willona was granted to stay behind and talk to Lenella. She said her plan wouldn't work because she had too many people to vouch for her, Lenella responded that she had policemen, pictures, and a dozen witnesses on her side, plus an upscale lawyer. She insisted that all the pain she caused Penny before was all in the past. When Willona goes into a list of what all was done to Penny, what is one of the descriptions?
15. In the series finale, "The End of the Rainbow", good luck seemed to be raining down on everyone. What was one thing that did NOT take place in this episode?
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