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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hager's companion want to spend her time?
(a) Reading and studying.
(b) Dancing and having fun with boys.
(c) Creating art.
(d) Protesting black inequality.

2. Why is Jimboy not working that day?
(a) He was injured.
(b) He wanted to spend the day with Sandy.
(c) He had been laid off.
(d) He was sick.

3. How long has it been since Annjee's husband, Jimboy, has written?
(a) Three days.
(b) Three weeks.
(c) Three months.
(d) Three years.

4. Towards the end of the year, Annjee recovers, and they receive a letter from Harriet asking for what?
(a) Fare to travel to Hollywood.
(b) Their support in her new music career.
(c) Fare to come home from Memphis, Tennessee.
(d) A visit from them.

5. Hager, Annjee and Sandy are very poor, so poor that they can't afford what?
(a) Food.
(b) Warm clothes.
(c) Heat.
(d) A wreath or cake icing.

6. "Carnival" begins with Hager and her family splitting up, with some going to the revival and some going to the carnival _____ mile down the road.
(a) A half.
(b) A quarter.
(c) Three-quarters of a.
(d) A.

7. What does this woman think of Jesus?
(a) Righteous and black.
(b) Powerful and black.
(c) Stiff and white.
(d) Rich and white.

8. How does Annjee feel when Jimboy comes home and starts singing with Harriet?
(a) She feels relieved.
(b) She feels hurt.
(c) She feels happy.
(d) She feels anxious.

9. Where is Jimboy working?
(a) Detroit.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Toledo.
(d) New York City.

10. Why were Aunt Hager's services needed?
(a) She was a pastor.
(b) She was a maid.
(c) She was an electrician.
(d) She was a nurse.

11. Old Sister Johnson had lived through slavery, and after being freed, she and a large number of other blacks started up a town called _____________.
(a) Crowville.
(b) Negroville.
(c) Blackville.
(d) Hopeville.

12. What does Aunt Hager think of Jimboy?
(a) He is worthless.
(b) He is kind.
(c) He is entertaining.
(d) He is intelligent.

13. What does Tempy give Sandy for Christmas?
(a) A beautiful book of Andersen's Fairy Tales.
(b) A Bible.
(c) A pair of boots.
(d) A new sled.

14. Stanton largely has _________ social classes.
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

15. Sandy saw that his mother worked very hard and that Mrs. Rice, the blond, skinny white woman, was constantly doing what?
(a) Criticizing Annjee.
(b) Helping Annjee.
(c) Entertaining Anjee.
(d) Ignoring Annjee.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are Hager's three daughters?

2. Sandy really wants _________, but the best his mother can do is to get Mr. Logan to build him one.

3. "Conversation" records a conversation between Aunt Hager and who else?

4. For ________ years she worked hard to support her family and to see Jimboy only a few weeks a year.

5. What did Aunt Hager think of Jimboy's letter?

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