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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Artificial Nigger.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the baker accuse the red-haired girl and the blind man of doing in “The Peeler”?
(a) Being an unfit couple.
(b) Stealing his customers.
(c) Heckling him.
(d) Breaking the laws.

2. What is the mother in “The River” doing in the beginning of the story?
(a) Smoking.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Cooking.
(d) Working.

3. What is chained in a Chinaberry tree outside the diner where they stop to eat in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”?
(a) A cat.
(b) A monkey.
(c) A donkey.
(d) A goat.

4. Why doesn’t the grandmother in “A Good Man is Hard to Find” want to drive through Georgia?
(a) She doesn’t like the heat.
(b) Her family is buried there.
(c) A convict named the “Misfit” has escaped from the local penitentiary.
(d) It is not in the direction that they need to go.

5. Who does Mr. Head live with?
(a) Nelson, his grandson.
(b) Nelson, his father.
(c) Nelson, his brother.
(d) Nelson, his son.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tries to befriend Hazel Motes?

2. Who does Hazel Motes follow down the street?

3. How many children are traveling with the grandmother and her son in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”?

4. Where is Mr. Head and the family member he lives with going?

5. After the family rolls their car in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, what do the men in the passing car have?

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