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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Quicksand, Chapters Twenty-Four and Twenty-Five.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Helga is tired of black people
(a) Denigrating white people.
(b) Wanting to be white.
(c) Being walked on by whites.
(d) Sticking together.

2. What dominates Helga's mind when rich men court her in New York?
(a) Her career goals.
(b) Her simple life in Chicago.
(c) Her wish to stay with Anne.
(d) Robert Anderson.

3. What emotion does Dr. Anderson's presence stir up in Helga?
(a) Her grief.
(b) Her superiority.
(c) Her anger.
(d) Her depression.

4. In a letter, Anne asks Helga to
(a) Forget about Dr. Anderson.
(b) Forget her past in Harlem.
(c) Not be mad at her.
(d) Attend her wedding to Dr. Anderson.

5. Helga makes the decision while she is still bedridden to
(a) Commit suicide.
(b) Flee to Naxos.
(c) Leave Pastor Green.
(d) Re-commit to the church.

Short Answer Questions

1. The staging of Helga by her aunt and uncle make Helga feel like

2. The furnishings in Anne Grey's home

3. Helga's most recent infant

4. Why might Helga have felt alienated in the "Negro" school as a child?

5. When she finds Anne gone upon her return from the tea, Helga

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