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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Dr. Copeland so interested in Mr. Singer?
(a) Because he he curious about the other man.
(b) Because Mr. Singer paid his daughter well for ironing his shirts.
(c) Because he has a deaf child as a patient.
(d) Because he never knew a person who was deaf and mute.

2. Where did Mick Kelly take her brothers on Sunday morning?
(a) To a big, new house that was being built.
(b) To the church to look out from the steeple.
(c) To a big, haunted house.
(d) To the playground to climb the sliding board.

3. What did Dr. Copeland do that made his children resent him?
(a) He didn't do anything, they were just stubborn children.
(b) As children he left their mother, and she had to raise them alone.
(c) As children he tried to mold them to be what he wanted them to be.
(d) He ran away to medical school and forgot them until he returned to town as a doctor.

4. Who does Portia say her father is?
(a) A black judge.
(b) A farmer.
(c) A black doctor in town.
(d) A lawyer.

5. As she sat on the landing listening to Miss Brown's radio, where did Mick want be?
(a) A concert.
(b) Visiting with Mr. Singer.
(c) The movies.
(d) The attic where she could be alone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of house does Dr. Copeland live in?

2. Who is Portia?

3. Who knocks on Dr. Copeland's door at the opening of Chapter 5?

4. What did Mick do in the afternoon after her conversation with Portia in the kitchen?

5. Who took a drunken Jake Blount home?

(see the answer key)

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