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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mick do when she finds Bubber hiding in the tree house?
(a) She tells him Baby is dead and he was going to jail.
(b) She tells him Baby is okay, but he is going to be grounded.
(c) She tells him Baby is dead and he has to run away.
(d) She tells him Baby was okay and he would only be spanked.

2. What does Mick do most nights?
(a) Works a part time job.
(b) Hides in the attic and looks at her secret box.
(c) Drinks beer behind the house.
(d) Walks the streets alone.

3. Where does Jake spend the second night of the story?
(a) On the floor.
(b) In a chair in Mr. Singer's room.
(c) On a park bench.
(d) On a mattress on Mr. Singer's floor.

4. How does Mr. Singer communicate with Antonapoulos?
(a) Sign language
(b) They can't communicate.
(c) Photographs.
(d) He writes notes.

5. Why did Mick say she wore shorts?
(a) She wanted to look like her brothers, not her sisters.
(b) She could climb trees better in shorts than a skirt.
(c) She didn't want to look like her sisters or wear their hand-me-downs.
(d) She thought it was too hot for long pants.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens when Willie and Highboy came inside Dr. Copeland's home?

3. What does Dr. Copeland do for his patients on Christmas day?

4. What does Mick say to Portia about God?

5. In the opening pages of Chapter 3, what are Mr. and Mrs. Brannon arguing about?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Blount want even more than a job?

2. What happened as Mister Singer got more acquainted with the people in the town?

3. Why does Mister Singer offer to take Jake Blount home with him to spend the night?

4. Why did Singer suddenly go away during July without warning?

5. In what way did Doctor Copeland use the Christmas party as a forum?

6. What do we learn about the Kellys financial situation in Part 2, Chapter 9?

7. After living without his friend for over a year, why did the death of the other man push Mister Singer to suicide?

8. What does Biff Brannon do as he stands behind the cash register in Part 1, Chapter 2?

9. What had changed about Mick Kelly as she sat in the restaurant on the evening of August 21, 1939?

10. What is the difference between Jake Blount and Doctor Copeland's feelings about inequality of the races and the power of the rich?

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