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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Joe selling when he meets Dorcas?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Encyclopedias.
(c) Brooms.
(d) Cosmetics.

2. What does Malvonne find behind her refrigerator?
(a) A box of money.
(b) A coin collection.
(c) An old diamond ring.
(d) A sack of stolen mail.

3. How much does Joe pay for the bedroom he and Dorcas meet in?
(a) Two dollars a month.
(b) He trades handiwork for the use of the bedroom.
(c) Five dollars an hour.
(d) Nothing.

4. What does the train conductor announce when he walks through the cabin where Joe and Violet are standing?
(a) No black couples remain together.
(b) Breakfast is being served.
(c) All blacks must leave the train car.
(d) It is time to separate from the white customers.

5. What happens to Dorcas's mother?
(a) She dies in a housefire.
(b) She is killed by a boyfriend.
(c) She gradually becomes insane.
(d) She runs away to Mexico.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Dorcas's clothespin dolls lay?

2. What does Dorcas put on Joe's hands?

3. Who tells Violet Dorcas's address?

4. What does Alice Manfred do for a living?

5. What does Malvonne do for a living?

(see the answer key)

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