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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraphs 5 - 9 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The subject says she does not have the luxury like some women do to have a cop smile at her even while wearing what?
(a) Her ill-fitting hand-me-downs.
(b) Her tattered stockings.
(c) Her oldest Terylene housedress.
(d) Her pajamas and slippers.

2. What is Lady Day said to have always been in paragraph 4?
(a) An elegant woman.
(b) A performer at heart.
(c) A loner.
(d) A man's lady.

3. What does the speaker say Lady Day and her dog Pepi are?
(a) Soul mates.
(b) Perfect strangers.
(c) Arch enemies.
(d) Best friends.

4. Paragraph 7 starts by saying that Lady Day can be the most wonderful what "when the mood takes" her?
(a) Lover, housekeeper, and dog-mom.
(b) Aunt, godmother, and nursemaid.
(c) Singer, songwriter, performer.
(d) Mother, sister, wife.

5. Who does the story's subject not wish to be mistaken for at the start of "Crazy They Call Me"?
(a) Billie Holiday.
(b) Lady Day.
(c) Ella Fitzgerald.
(d) Eleanora Fagan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the story's subject always wear, according to paragraph 1 in "Crazy They Call Me"?

2. How is the "little gang" (para. 4) of Lady Day's friends described?

3. In paragraph two, in what city is Lady Day performing?

4. How is the "little girl" (para. 1) the subject does not want to be mistaken for described in paragraph 1?

5. What does the speaker mean in paragraph 5 when she says, "There was no way to be in the world like that, not back then"?

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