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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What action does Papa take when he is angry?
(a) He taps his foot.
(b) He chops wood.
(c) He chews his lip.
(d) He clenches his fists.

2. How many times in her life has Stella seen an airplane in the sky?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 11.
(d) 4.

3. In what state is Stella's hometown of Bumblebee located?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Virginia.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) North Carolina.

4. Whose skin is likened to the color of rum?
(a) Jojo.
(b) Papa.
(c) Mama.
(d) Stella.

5. What food does Mama offer to Spoon Man on the morning of his departure?
(a) A pancake.
(b) A slice of ham.
(c) A biscuit.
(d) An egg.

Short Answer Questions

1. What beverage does Mama offer to Spoon Man on the morning of his departure?

2. When the family goes out to alert the neighborhood about the Klan's resurgence, who is assigned the left side of the street?

3. What is Stella's response when she is told that she cannot visit the place she would like to go in Spindale?

4. The animal Jojo mistakenly believes to be headless has what color body?

5. Stella says that she has a feeling that the Klan like to make black people "feel" (15) what way?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the cross outside of New Hope Church echo the novel's depiction of beauty within imperfection?

2. What comment does Papa make about shame after the pastor's sermon?

3. What racial inequalities are depicted within the voter registration process in Spindale?

4. What sight alerts Stella to the identity of the one of the Klansmen at the rally?

5. What role does religion play within Stella's community?

6. What philosophy are the black people in Bumblebee said to hold because "it had always been" (5) so?

7. To what location is Stella sent during the meeting that takes place in the Mills' home and why?

8. Provide a description of Mama's temperament.

9. Why are Jojo and Stella outside in the middle of the night in the novel's opening scene?

10. What plan does Pastor Patton tell the congregation he will undertake the following morning?

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