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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17 "Seventh Street".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Fern feel about the townspeople gossiping about her?
(a) She is indifferent.
(b) She is angry.
(c) She relishes in it.
(d) She is embarrassed by it.

2. What did the townspeople secretly bring Becky?
(a) Tools.
(b) Money.
(c) Their problems.
(d) Food.

3. What does the author visually contrast with the whitewashed streets of Washington in "Seventh Street"?
(a) Blood.
(b) Rum.
(c) Black skin.
(d) Tar.

4. When contemplating what sort of life Fern might have, how does the author compare love to prejudice?
(a) It is deeply rooted in issues of possession.
(b) It is difficult to change once it has been engrained.
(c) It is subject to the same narrowminded assumptions.
(d) It cannot be bettered by a change in geographical location.

5. With which physical attribute on others is Esther preoccupied?
(a) Muscle.
(b) Blackness.
(c) Height.
(d) Eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Carma shoot?

2. Where was Becky's house?

3. How do the men in Fern's city feel about her after the narrator begins to pay her attention?

4. Who lives on Seventh Street?

5. How does Esther think that men feel about her?

(see the answer key)

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