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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What food item did the girl give to Bessie?
(a) Cornbread.
(b) Jello.
(c) Ice cream.
(d) Mashed potatoes.

2. What is the name of Nanny's sister?
(a) Georgina.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Anna.
(d) Eliza.

3. If fulfilled, this wish would make Bessie as old as _____.
(a) Moses.
(b) God.
(c) Methuselah.
(d) The hills.

4. In what year did the Jim Crow laws take effect on a federal level?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1927.
(d) 1914.

5. What is Bessie's real first name?
(a) Elizabeth.
(b) Anna.
(c) Beatrice.
(d) Bonnie.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sadie says that if Bessie gets her wish, she will have to live to be ____.

2. The sisters think that many men may have been put off by their _____.

3. Delany went to which school?

4. In what year did Henry and Nanny get married?

5. Sadie says the hardest thing about being old is that she no longer has many ______.

(see the answer key)

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