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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. Where does Ruth's mother suggest Ruth go for the summer?
(a) San Francisco
(b) New York
(c) Chicago
(d) Seattle

2. Which member of Ruth's family dies while she is in New York?
(a) Her father
(b) Her brother
(c) Her grandfather
(d) Her sister

3. What neighborhood in New York does James live in?
(a) Queens
(b) Harlem
(c) Brooklyn
(d) Manhatten

4. Where does Ruth take her children shopping?
(a) Manhatten's Lower East Side
(b) The Bronx
(c) Greenwich Village
(d) Brooklyn

5. Where did Ruth's family live when they first arrived in America?
(a) New York
(b) Denver
(c) Los Angeles
(d) San Francisco

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ruth's father open in Virgina?

2. What type of customers does Ruth's father overcharge?

3. What style of lettering is this chapter written in?

4. What part of Virginia did Ruth and her family move to?

5. Why does Ruth think her father married her mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Ruth's parents.

2. Describe the character of Daddy.

3. How does Ruth react to Hunter Jordan's death?

4. Describe what happens when Ruth asks James to take the milk back to the shop.

5. Describe Ruth's father's work.

6. Why did James think his mother was strange?

7. How does Peter change Ruth's life?

8. What happens to James when his mother forgets to pick him up from kindergarten?

9. What is the state of black people's lives in the 1930s?

10. Describe the household James was brought up in.

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