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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraphs 10 - 12 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the speaker describe what it is like to stand on stage at the start of paragraph 10?
(a) It is like being a god.
(b) It is like giving your all.
(c) It is like eating your own heart out.
(d) It is constant humiliation.

2. What does Lady Day "throw...before swine" in paragraph 10?
(a) Dust.
(b) Pearls.
(c) Furs.
(d) Diamonds.

3. What does the Italian landlady tell Lady Day she always looks like to her?
(a) A lady.
(b) A doll.
(c) A shell of herself.
(d) A disgrace.

4. What does the speaker say each room must be turned into in order to accommodate the song discussed in paragraph 10?
(a) A dance party.
(b) A schoolhouse.
(c) A church.
(d) An auditorium.

5. What other female singers of the time are referenced in paragraph 10?
(a) Eileen and Margo.
(b) Nina and Simone.
(c) Ella and Sarah.
(d) Rita and Sue.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lady Day call the men who offer to walk her to the club in paragraph 8?

2. What can Lady Day do when she sees a baby according to paragraph 7?

3. What does paragraph 3 imply that most other women have waiting for them at home, which Lady Day does not?

4. Paragraph 9 ends by saying Lady Day paints her face as a form of what?

5. How did someone describe Lady Day's face after she "got skinny" according to paragraph 9?

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