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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Tate and his friends all want desperately in "Double Nigger"?
(a) Shelter.
(b) Clothes.
(c) Water.
(d) Food.

2. What is Fish-Hound's dog's name?
(a) Heyboy.
(b) Hellion.
(c) Noah.
(d) Rye.

3. Who guards the blackbird?
(a) The robin.
(b) The hawk.
(c) The Dove.
(d) The phoenix.

4. Who stops Tate and his friends on the road?
(a) Tate's mother.
(b) Fish's father.
(c) Grease's brother.
(d) A white man in a truck.

5. What are Tate and his friends afraid of when they stop at the abandoned house with the well?
(a) Hurricanes.
(b) Mean dogs.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Girls.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Fon say will save him?

2. What do the workers on the boat pull from the water?

3. How does Tate get his name?

4. What do the three children look to cross in "The Crossing"?

5. How does Blue get his name?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Headeye go in "Ark of Bones" at the end of the story?

2. What happens to the white people who talk their way into the club to hear Probe in "Will the Circle Be Unbroken"?

3. In "Double Nigger," what are the characters desperate for?

4. Who saves Fon from lynching in "Fon"?

5. In "A Harlem Game," how does Mack's father treat him?

6. What is Bubba's main objective in "The Crossing"?

7. What seems to be the purpose of the work the men on the ark do in "Ark of Bones"?

8. How do the police treat the main characters in "Strike and Fade"?

9. What do the crew pull out of the water in "Ark of Bones"?

10. What does Nillmon intend to do to Fon in "Fon"?

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