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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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"?
(a) Cora and her sisters.
(b) Phil and his sisters.
(c) Jamie and her sisters.
(d) Megan and her brothers.

2. What does the poet describe topping the letter "J" with in "The Beginning"?
(a) A jagged line.
(b) A pedestal.
(c) A crowbar.
(d) A straight hat.

3. How old does Jacqueline Woodson describe herself in the poem "The Beginning"?
(a) 3.
(b) 7.
(c) 9.
(d) 6.

4. How did Jacqueline Woodson's family travel from Ohio to South Carolina each winter when she was young?
(a) By airplane.
(b) By bus.
(c) By car.
(d) By train.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Dorothy related to Mary Anne?

2. What did Georgina tell her grandchildren never to do?

3. Who was the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South?

4. How many children did Grandma Georgiana's mother give birth to?

5. What kind of branch has Jackie's mother stripped to use as a switch in the poem "The Right Way to Speak"?

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