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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 is a song that Mrs. Bell likes to sing?
(a) Abide with Me.
(b) How Great Thou Art.
(c) Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing.
(d) A Mighty Fortress Is Our God.

2. At what hotel do the La Paloma Femme de la Jours hold their ball, fashion show, and champagne sip?
(a) The Manhattan at Times Square.
(b) Aliz Hotel Times Square.
(c) The Standard High Line.
(d) Metropolitan-Cadrington Arms.

3. What type of dancing does Benjie say his grandmother did when she was young?
(a) Jazz.
(b) Classic.
(c) Ballroom.
(d) Ballet.

4. What was Nigeria's nickname?
(a) Rick.
(b) Gerry.
(c) Niger.
(d) Nick.

5. What teachers complained to the principal that Nigeria was creating an atmosphere that bred hostility?
(a) 2 Negroes and one white.
(b) 3 Negroes.
(c) 3 whites.
(d) 2 whites and one Negro.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mrs. Bell's husband do for a living?

2. What time of day did Benjie and his mother used to go buy a Sunday newspaper?

3. What slave does Nigeria say that George Washington freed during his lifetime?

4. How much money is donated to the Friends of Drug Fighters Alliance?

5. Where does Butler wish they could send Benjie?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Rose meet Butler?

2. What does Walter say about what he does?

3. How does Benjie remember that he and his mother got along when he was a kid?

4. How did Jimmy-Lee learn to read well and fast?

5. Why are the midweek evening meetings cancelled at the Cyrenian Promise Baptist Church?

6. What does Benjie remember about Christmas and life before Butler came?

7. What is segregation in reserve?

8. What does Nigeria say about Bernard Cohen's teaching style?

9. What does Jimmy-Lee say about his father?

10. What did Butler do for a living, and why did he change jobs?

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