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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraphs 10 - 12 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word in the first paragraph indicates that the subject of the story is a performer?
(a) Playbill.
(b) Microphone.
(c) Audience.
(d) Stage.

2. The speakers says that Lady Day knows a voice has the same thing to do as what instruments?
(a) A violin, guitar, and cello.
(b) A drum, a flute, a baritone.
(c) A xylophone, a zither, a harmonica.
(d) A sax, or trumpet or piano.

3. What other musicians might "more serious" (para. 12) people ask the singer about?
(a) Porter and Gerswhin.
(b) Armstrong, Lester, and Basie.
(c) Fitzgerald and Vaughn.
(d) Smith and Simone.

4. What does the speaker say people are in paragraph 10 after describing audience members?
(a) Saints.
(b) Idiots.
(c) Annoying.
(d) Useless.

5. Who are the people wearing "fancy furs" and discussing Miss Day's singing style at the start of paragraph 10?
(a) Old girls.
(b) Her entourage.
(c) White ladies.
(d) Dear boys.

Short Answer Questions

1. What types of "dull questions" do people want to know about the singer according to the final paragraph?

2. What are the people who offer to walk Lady Day to the club worried might happen if they do not?

3. What does the singer sometimes feel directs her singing according to paragraph 11?

4. What do audience members drink in paragraph 10?

5. What does Lady Day call the men who offer to walk her to the club in paragraph 8?

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