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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What health problem did the boy from up the road suffer from in "The Almost Friends"?
(a) Paraplegia.
(b) A speech impediment.
(c) A hole in his heart.
(d) Epilepsy.

2. What word in the book is used to describe fire hydrants that are turned on for children in the summertime in New York?
(a) Splatter levers.
(b) Roger jacks.
(c) Johnny pumps.
(d) Pickup-tricks.

3. What store does the poet describe Grandma Georgiana avoiding because she was once made to wait long past her turn for service in "What Everybody Knows Now"?
(a) Cortwright's.
(b) Henry's Hardware.
(c) Cornwall's.
(d) Woolworth's.

4. Who lived above Jackie's family on Herzl Street?
(a) Peter.
(b) Jack and Sarah.
(c) Aunt Kay and Bernie.
(d) Peaches.

5. Who wrote the short story "The Selfish Giant"?
(a) Henry David Thoreau.
(b) Edgar Allan Poe.
(c) Oscar Wilde.
(d) Walt Whitman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Biblical river is referenced in the poem "The Leavers"?

2. What is the title of Part 3 of Brown Girl Dreaming?

3. Who are the people that lived across the road from Jackie's grandmother and who she warned them to stay away from in the poem "The Almost Friends"?

4. What happens to Pinocchio in the books, according to the poet in "Family"?

5. What creatures "keep going / as though they know their song / is our lullaby" in the poem "Lullaby"?

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