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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the singer wish she said to an interviewer from the Daily News who once asked about how she does not read music?
(a) I AM music.
(b) Neither can you.
(c) I FEEL music.
(d) I don't need to read music to be music.

3. How is the "little gang" (para. 4) of Lady Day's friends described?
(a) Sycophants.
(b) Star struck women.
(c) Groupies.
(d) Dear boys.

4. In paragraph 7, what are some things the speaker says people are always telling babies?
(a) What to do, think, say and eat.
(b) Who to love and who to hate.
(c) Where to go and who to interact with.
(d) When to sleep and how to act.

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) Eleanora Fagan.
(c) Ella Fitzgerald.
(d) Lady Day.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who waits for Lady Day downstairs at the start of paragraph 8?

2. From what point of view is "Crazy They Call Me" written?

3. Where does Lady Day keep her cigarrettes?

4. What does the Italian landlady tell Lady Day she always looks like to her?

5. What does the singer sometimes feel directs her singing according to paragraph 11?

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