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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-12, Punishment, School, Hard Winter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did this woman decide to quit her job as a waitress?
(a) Because she had plans to go back to school.
(b) Because the job did not pay well.
(c) Because white men harassed her too much and asked her to sleep with them.
(d) Because her boss treated her badly.

2. In "Jimboy's Letter", AnnJee receives a note from Jimboy saying what?
(a) He'd found a good job and wanted her to join him.
(b) He'd been laying railroad in Kansas City and had hurt his back so he was coming home.
(c) He'd been working in a warehouse in Chicago and had been promoted to manager.
(d) He'd remarried.

3. What does this woman think that Christianity makes black people?
(a) Powerful and confident.
(b) Scared and powerless.
(c) Stuck up and unable to have fun.
(d) Ignorant and weak.

4. What did Sandy eventually do at the dance?
(a) He danced with girls.
(b) He watched the others dance.
(c) He watched the musicians.
(d) He fell asleep.

5. At the beginning of the story, what is Aunt Hager desperately trying to do?
(a) Get Sandy and herself into a closet.
(b) Get Sandy and herself into an ambulance.
(c) Get Sandy and herself into a boat.
(d) Get Sandy and herself into her cellar and get the door shut.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sister Johnson and Hager have long conversation about what?

2. How does Hager's companion want to spend her time?

3. Old Sister Johnson had lived through slavery, and after being freed, she and a large number of other blacks started up a town called _____________.

4. Harriet had been on bad terms with Aunt Hager. Why?

5. Who had Jimboy probably been trying to outdo?

(see the answer key)

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