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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the story "Judgment Day," what does Tanner use to keep his workers at the saw mill in line?
(a) A knife
(b) The police
(c) A whip
(d) Verbal threats

2. In the story "A View of the Woods," what does Mary Fortune tell her grandfather would happen to anyone who beat her?
(a) She would kill them.
(b) She would report them to the police.
(c) She would beat them.
(d) She would tell him about the person.

3. In the story "Revelation," what does Mrs. Turpin always notice about people?
(a) Their religions
(b) The ways they are dressed
(c) Their social classes
(d) Their feet

4. In the story "A View of the Woods," who does the Pitts family blame for Fortune wanting to sell the lot in front of their home?
(a) Mr. Pitts
(b) Tilman
(c) Mary Fortune
(d) Fortune

5. In the story "Revelation," what does Mrs. Turpin notice about the old woman sitting next to the child?
(a) She appears to be the boy's mother.
(b) She has snuff around her mouth.
(c) She is missing teeth.
(d) She cannot speak proper English.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the story "The Comforts of Home," why does Thomas' mother say she cannot send Star back to jail?

2. In the story "The Comforts of Home," who kills Thomas' mother?

3. In the story "Judgment Day," why does Tanner think the black man in his building does not respond to him when he first speaks to him?

4. In the story "Greenleaf," how does Mrs. May characterize the Greenleaf boys when she discovers it is their bull on her farm?

5. In the story "Parker's Back," what does Parker propose to try and encourage Sarah Ruth to look at his tattoos?

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