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

2. Who does the old scout meet before joining the parade?
(a) River.
(b) Vince.
(c) Bart.
(d) Helen.

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

4. Who does Fon say will save him?
(a) His brother.
(b) Himself.
(c) His mother.
(d) His sister.

5. What shacks are supposed to be haunted?
(a) The Richard Shacks.
(b) The Bertram Shacks.
(c) The Canebrake shacks.
(d) The Henderson Shacks.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tate get his name?

2. What does Grease say he did in the well?

3. What do Tate and his friends all want desperately in "Double Nigger"?

4. What happens to the blackbird's wings in "The Eagle the Dove and the Blackbird"?

5. What happens if you curse the echo tree in "Echo Tree"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Layton Fields' aspirations in "A Boll of Roses"?

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

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

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

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

6. In "Rope of Wind," what happens to the prisoner at the end?

7. What famous tragedy do the characters in "The Crossing" reference?

8. Why does Mack hurt himself at the end of "A Harlem Game"?

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

10. Why does Layton's grandmother tell him to give the white man who comes to collect money the good water in "Goodbye, Sweetwater"?

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