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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, A Long Day and a Long Night, Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the relationship between Suggie and Selina?
(a) Suggie is Selina's babysitter.
(b) Suggie lives upstairs.
(c) Selina wants to be like Suggie.
(d) Suggie has an affair with Selina's father.

2. Which of the following is the year in which the opening of the book is set?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1919.

3. In Book 1, Chapter 3, why does the other man think that Deighton will not make money at his latest venture?
(a) Because there are not any good jobs available.
(b) Because he is stupid.
(c) Because he is lazy.
(d) Because White people are not be likely to hire him.

4. What does Miss Thompson do for a living?
(a) She cleans homes for the rich.
(b) She runs a bakery and does laundry.
(c) She runs a restaurant.
(d) She runs a beauty shop and cleans offices.

5. Who is not in the Boyce family photograph?
(a) Ina.
(b) The son.
(c) Silla.
(d) Selina.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following phrase best describes the relationship between Deighton and Silla?

2. Why does Miss Thompson not go to the doctor?

3. Where do people in the story go for fun on a Saturday night?

4. Who is Vergie?

5. What does Ina tell her mother that her father plans to do?

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