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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Earl say will be the outcome of their moving out of town?
(a) the Klan will go after someone else.
(b) they won't have any income.
(c) it will be the same wherever they go.
(d) God will help them find a better place.

2. What do the Klansmen do to the Littles' house?
(a) throw black and red paint on it.
(b) set the house on fire.
(c) smash in all the windows.
(d) burn a cross in the front yard.

3. Where does Louise tell little Malcolm he was born?
(a) Cincinnati.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Omaha.
(d) Newark.

4. What happens to Malcolm after his mother is taken away?
(a) he runs away.
(b) he goes to live with his grandmother.
(c) he goes into foster care.
(d) he goes to the reformatory.

5. Who does Louise face one night at suppertime?
(a) her white neighbors.
(b) the Welfare Society.
(c) the Sheriff.
(d) the Ku Klux Klan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the symbolism of the boy entering the large white hotel?

2. Who is the fair, young mulatto woman hanging out clothes?

3. What does Shorty think Malcolm is doing with his religious talk?

4. How does Malcolm get away with entering a bar in the Negro Section of Lansing?

5. What does Sydney say about black women in a Muslim household?

(see the answer key)

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