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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens in town when George Carver is born?
(a) Police cars sound their sirens.
(b) Firecrackers are set off.
(c) Firestation sirens are rung.
(d) Church bells ring and guns are fired.

2. Where was Mr. Carver born?
(a) In the hospital in Nashville.
(b) In the emergency room in Memphis.
(c) In his uncle's house in Thornton.
(d) On the Town Farm in Thornton.

3. What do Alex and Holly talk about when he goes to see her at her apartment?
(a) How to move Holly's things back into their apartment.
(b) Where they would like their next apartment to be.
(c) Their families and the death of Holly's mother.
(d) Who she has been dating since moving out.

4. What does Phillip come to realize his father has yearned for all of his life?
(a) Control and power over others.
(b) Individuality and otherness.
(c) Freedom and independence.
(d) Wealth and acclaim.

5. What people are responsible for helping Phillip leave Memphis to move to New York?
(a) Lewis Shackleford and his wife.
(b) Holly Kaplan and Alex Mercer.
(c) Betsy and Josephine.
(d) Alex and his wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Alex teach?

2. According to Josephine, why does she not go out onto the dance floor and help her father who is obviously in pain?

3. What sports do the girls take up in Memphis?

4. What tone infects Betsy's written description of the people with whom her father is night clubbing?

5. What adventures do Betsy and Josephine write and tell Phillip about concerning their father?

(see the answer key)

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