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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what level does religion interest Richard?
(a) Young
(b) Emotional
(c) Sensual
(d) Intellectual

2. What kind of school does Richard enter?
(a) Religious school
(b) Public school
(c) Boarding school
(d) Law school

3. Where is Richard going when the boys rob him?
(a) The grocery store
(b) School
(c) The paper shop
(d) The library

4. Why do Pease and Reynolds refuse to train Richard on the optic machines?
(a) They need training themselves
(b) It is white man's work
(c) People should not need to be trained
(d) They are too dangerous

5. How does Richard help Granny to request money from her relatives?
(a) Blackmails them
(b) Visits them
(c) Sends telegrams
(d) Writes letters

6. Where does Richard work the following summer?
(a) A grocery store
(b) A sawmill
(c) A watermill
(d) A bomb factory

7. What does Richard threaten Addie with at home?
(a) An ax
(b) A knife
(c) A tomahawk
(d) A gun

8. Who are Richard's friends hostile towards?
(a) Women
(b) Whites
(c) Religious zealots
(d) Men

9. What does Richard typically eat for dinner?
(a) Bread and milk
(b) Spaghetti
(c) Greens
(d) Potatos

10. Where does Maggie live?
(a) Boston
(b) Mississippi
(c) New York
(d) Arkansas

11. What does Richard typically eat for breakfast?
(a) Biscuits and gravy
(b) Gruel and noodles
(c) Eggs and toast
(d) Flour and lard mush

12. Who does Richard learn that the whites have killed?
(a) His father
(b) The brother of a housemate
(c) His brother
(d) A second uncle

13. What does Richard have to call his aunt in class?
(a) Miss Wilson
(b) Teacher
(c) Miss Doran
(d) Addie

14. What does the principal think he will keep Richard from doing if he does not read his speech?
(a) Living
(b) Writing
(c) Working
(d) Graduating

15. Where did the black boy work?
(a) A factory
(b) A restaurant
(c) A hotel
(d) A cafe

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Richard pawn in this chapter?

2. What does Brother Mance sell?

3. What does Richard have to fight Uncle Tom off with?

4. Who does the family spend time with on the way to Arkansas?

5. What does Richard's mother force him to do with the dead kitten?

(see the answer keys)

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