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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Sue primarily afraid of that night?
(a) Being beaten by the sheriff.
(b) Losing her son.
(c) Sug being hung.
(d) Reva's father killing Johnny-Boy.

2. What seemed to continually test Sue's faith?
(a) The pain in her body.
(b) Her sons' behavior.
(c) Her husband's illness.
(d) The discrimination towards black people.

3. Why was one of Sue's sons arrested a year ago?
(a) For not divulging names of others in the party.
(b) For raping a college student.
(c) For talking back to the sheriff.
(d) For breaking the drug store's window.

4. What does Sue sense that night about her son, Johnny-Boy?
(a) He is going to bust his brother out of jail.
(b) He will soon be married.
(c) He will be shot and killed.
(d) She will soon be saying good-bye to him.

5. What does Reva tell Sue to tell Johnny-Boy?
(a) That she loves him.
(b) That her father is looking for him.
(c) To keep his comrades away from her house.
(d) That they have a date Saturday.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sue earn her living?

2. Where is Sug at the beginning of the story?

3. What does Sue do while Johnny-Boy is eating?

4. What did Sue's mother instill in her?

5. What's the first thing Sue tells Reva to do when she comes inside?

(see the answer key)

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