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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose presence was "destined to make the summer of 1941 a season that would live in imbecility" in Chapter 4?
(a) Mama's.
(b) Granny's.
(c) Evelyn's.
(d) Florence's.

2. In Chapter 7, Herb worked increasingly less, refusing to start his own band or solicit engagements from whom, as Granny suggested?
(a) The Charleston Social Register.
(b) The Smithsonian Museum.
(c) The Washington Social Register.
(d) The New York Social Register.

3. What did Florence always refer to her father as?
(a) Jack.
(b) Papa.
(c) Daddy.
(d) Herb.

4. Why was Florence's family evicted from the apartment at Park Road?
(a) The building was condemned.
(b) The building caught fire.
(c) It was being segregated.
(d) Herb was arrested.

5. Where was Herb King originally from?
(a) England.
(b) Spain.
(c) California.
(d) New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the membrane that surrounds or partially covers the external vaginal opening?

2. What is the view that the truth value of certain claims -- especially claims about the existence or non-existence of any deity, but also other religious and metaphysical claims -- is unknown or unknowable?

3. Who paraphrased Henry Adams in Chapter 6, saying "culturally impossible for the American woman to be feminine because she has no defining goddesses"?

4. What is believed to occur when the soul or spirit, after the death of the body, comes back to life in a new form, such as another animal or anything that is living?

5. What did Florence's French teacher suggest she become in Chapter 8?

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