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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Quicksand - Chapters Ten and Eleven.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Helga feels like a criminal when she meets Anne because
(a) She knows she is taking advantage of Anne.
(b) She has taken money from Hayes-Rore.
(c) Anne thinks Helga's mother just recently died.
(d) She plans to abscond with Anne's fortune.

2. Helga now feels alienated from
(a) The Negro race.
(b) Her aunt.
(c) Harlem and New York.
(d) Herself.

3. Helga projects a sense of
(a) Poverty.
(b) Fear.
(c) Affluence.
(d) Indifference.

4. Why does her uncle's wife reject Helga?
(a) She thinks Helga dresses too loudly.
(b) She does not believe Helga.
(c) She is simply cruel and evil.
(d) She feels Helga is not a valid member of the family.

5. Helga is angry at herself because
(a) Her teaching has been ineffective.
(b) Her colleagues like their jobs.
(c) She is too beautiful to be a teacher.
(d) Her students think she is too young.

Short Answer Questions

1. Anne Grey symbolizes

2. Helga wishes that the school would not

3. Helga is disturbed by her euphoric feelings from the music, telling herself

4. Helga has trouble finding work because she

5. Besides her uncle, what connection does Helga have in Chicago?

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