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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Richard refuse from his neighbors?
(a) Books
(b) Money
(c) Clothes
(d) Food

2. Where does Maggie live?
(a) Mississippi
(b) Arkansas
(c) Boston
(d) New York

3. What does one of the workers show Richard to demonstrate how dangerous working at the sawmill can be?
(a) The worker's graveyard
(b) Photographs
(c) Hospital reports
(d) His missing fingers

4. What kind of weapon does Richard hide under his pillow?
(a) A tomahawk
(b) A gun
(c) A stick
(d) A knife

5. Who does the family spend time with on the way to Arkansas?
(a) Auntie Joan
(b) James McFadden
(c) Uncle Tom
(d) Granny

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Richard's boss say a dog's bite cannot hurt?

2. What does Nathan work as?

3. What does Richard's mother think will happen if people think Richard has a weak mind?

4. Why does Ella have to stop work?

5. What does Wright say he would have done if he had known there were so many obstacles to overcome as a writer?

(see the answer key)

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