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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Parts 6-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bessie says she intends to live to be how old?
(a) 110.
(b) 120.
(c) 125.
(d) 115.

2. In what year did Sadie graduate from St. Augustine's school?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1908.

3. How long had the sisters lived in that area?
(a) 75 years.
(b) 55 years.
(c) 60 years.
(d) 80 years.

4. Grandpa Miliam once told Nanny that every one of her children could have been a:
(a) Detective.
(b) Preacher.
(c) Snake oil salesman.
(d) Politician.

5. When Bessie was about 15, the region was struck with a _____ epidemic.
(a) Chicken pox.
(b) Scarlet fever.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Typhoid.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Bessie when she left home by herself for the first time?

2. How old was Nanny at this point?

3. The sisters tell a story about a young boy who was trying to save the life of which type of bird?

4. It is widely believed that the Jim Crow laws were responsible for introducing which of the following?

5. Bessie remarks that the Civil Rights Movement suffered from ______ after Martin Luther King, Jr. died.

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