10 questions: "The Night I Won to the Streets of Memphis"

The 10 Questions:
1) What happened after Richard came back telling his mom that he had gotten jumped for a second time?
2) How many times did Richard get jumped before his mom sent him back out with a stick?
3) Can you tell why Richard didn't fight back after getting jumped the first and second time?
4) What is the reason why Richard's mother kept sending him back out with more money?
5) Did Richard want to go back out to fight the gang with the stick or was he made to do so?
6) Who was the key character in the story, "The Night I Won to the Streets of Memphis"?
7) Can you write in your own words why the boy didn't just fight the gang after the first instance?
8) What do you think could of happened next if the boy went out a third time without a stick?
9) Can you distinguish between Richard's mother and the gang?
10) What item did Richard Wright's mother give him to go take with him to go back to the market a third time?

The 10 Answers to the The 10 Questions:

1) She slapped Richard, gave him a stick and told him that he couldn't return until he had groceries this time.
2) Two times
3) Richard was not brought up to fight. His mother wouldn't allow it and it's kind of shocking that she's now allowing this to happen. A thing that she had never done before.
4) Richard's mother had gave him order from there on that Richard would do the shopping for food.
5) His mother made Richard do so. She stated, "Don't you come back into this house until you've gotten those groceries".
6) Richard Wright
7) He was not use to just fighting a group of boys.... or just the fight the thing aways.
8) Richard could have just beaten up even worst than the other beatings from the gang.
9) Richard can't hit back at his mother but the gang he can hit them and get away with then.
10) A stick was given.