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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What made Sue feel anxious and worried at the beginning of the story?
(a) Sug was supposed to be home yesterday.
(b) Her mother has been ill.
(c) She learned a Communist meeting had been called.
(d) Her brother went into the hospital.

2. What does Sue feel strongly about Johnny-Boy while Reva is there?
(a) He's in love with Reva.
(b) Something terrible has happened to him.
(c) He is at Reva's house.
(d) Reva's father hates him.

3. What does Sue do to ignore her fears?
(a) Read the Bible.
(b) Have a glass of whiskey.
(c) Call her sister in Ohio.
(d) Concentrate on work.

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

5. What did Sue see as taking precedence over her life?
(a) Staying alive.
(b) Winnning the lottery.
(c) White people's laws.
(d) Taking care of her sons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Reva tell Sue to tell Johnny-Boy?

2. When is Johnny-Boy happiest?

3. What does Sue do to ease her fear?

4. How does Sue feel about Reva?

5. How did life seem to Sue after one of her sons went to jail?

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