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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. How was the Royalty Room decorated for the ball, fashion show, and champagne sip?
(a) Silver and white doves.
(b) Silver and white streamers.
(c) Silver and white ornaments.
(d) Silver and white garlands.

2. Where did Mrs. Bell grow up?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Alabama.
(d) Louisiana.

3. What does Mrs. Bell remember they forced her to make at the old folks' club?
(a) Placecards.
(b) Paper flowers.
(c) Cookies.
(d) Jello.

4. How much does Benjie remember that his friend Jimmy-Lee was going to get for his birthday from his uncle?
(a) $15.
(b) $10.
(c) $5.
(d) $20.

5. How many Black students does Nigeria say he has in his class on page 42?
(a) 37.
(b) 31.
(c) 24.
(d) 28.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nigeria remember eating on New Year's for good luck?

2. Where would Benjie and his mother go after they bought a Sunday newspaper?

3. What is the name of the woman who was beat up and robbed after she left a night meeting of the Scholarship Fund Society?

4. What are some jobs that Jimmy-Lee's father has quit?

5. Where does Butler wish they could send Benjie?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Benjie think about lying, and how did he break his code?

2. Why does Bernard Cohen consider quitting teaching or transferring to another school?

3. What would Butler do if he and Rosie had money?

4. What does Mrs. Ransom Bell say about getting old?

5. What does Benjie say about being a child?

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

7. What was Nigeria's goal in getting through school?

8. Why did Rose not go to a ball game with Butler and Benjie?

9. What does Benjie's stepfather say about opportunity?

10. How did Rose meet Butler?

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