Crazy They Call Me Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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Crazy They Call Me Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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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 song does the speaker say not everyone is going to "get" in paragraph 10?
(a) Fine and Mellow.
(b) Summertime.
(c) Strange Fruit.
(d) God Bless the Child.

2. In paragraph 11, it is said that Lady Day's abilities are better than which two American composers?
(a) Rodgers and Hammerstein.
(b) Copland and Porter.
(c) Berlin and Bernstein.
(d) Porter and Gershwin.

3. What do audiences seek in Lady Day's face, according to paragraph 9?
(a) Her soul.
(b) Her beauty.
(c) Her wisdom.
(d) Her sadness.

4. What types of "dull questions" do people want to know about the singer according to the final paragraph?
(a) When she plans to retire.
(b) Which person wrote the lyrics to which song.
(c) Which man goes with which song.
(d) How long she has been singing.

5. What does Lady Day do on the advice of her friends?
(a) She stops performing.
(b) She moves to the country.
(c) She finds a husband.
(d) She gets a dog.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two words have been used to describe Lady Day when she sings the song discussed in paragraph 10?

2. Who does the story's subject not wish to be mistaken for at the start of "Crazy They Call Me"?

3. Who are the people wearing "fancy furs" and discussing Miss Day's singing style at the start of paragraph 10?

4. What does Lady Day "throw...before swine" in paragraph 10?

5. What word is repeated to describe what happens when the singer phrases in a way she has never done or heard before?

(see the answer key)

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