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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Sadie?
(a) 103.
(b) 100.
(c) 102.
(d) 101.

2. Which one of the following was a main goal of the Jim Crow laws?
(a) Higher taxes.
(b) Public speaking.
(c) Right to vote.
(d) Land ownership.

3. Which famous case was responsible for the introduction of the laws?
(a) Roe v. Wade.
(b) Plessy v. Ferguson.
(c) Delany v. North Carolina.
(d) Brown v. The Board of Education.

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

5. Bessie jokes that not being married meant that she would not be ____ to death.
(a) Worried.
(b) Bored.
(c) Nagged.
(d) Annoyed.

6. When someone makes a statement and is proven to be wrong, it is often said that the person has to eat ____.
(a) Dirt.
(b) Pig's feet.
(c) Pride.
(d) Crow.

7. Which of the children sustained a major injury to the hand?
(a) Hubert.
(b) Hap.
(c) Lemuel.
(d) Bessie.

8. What was the name of the little girl in the next bed?
(a) Amaza.
(b) Angela.
(c) Annabelle.
(d) Alice.

9. What caused the injury?
(a) Accidental fall.
(b) Knife.
(c) Gun.
(d) Schoolyard brawl.

10. What was the name of the small town where the house was located?
(a) Montgomery.
(b) Murphy.
(c) Method.
(d) Manchester.

11. Which of the professions is not mentioned by Bessie when she talks about blacks being the backbone of the country?
(a) Barbers.
(b) Porters.
(c) Butchers.
(d) Undertakers.

12. Delany went to which school?
(a) Notre Dame.
(b) Howard University.
(c) St. Augustine's.
(d) Southern Methodist University.

13. How many Delany children were there in total?
(a) 7.
(b) 9.
(c) 8.
(d) 10.

14. In what year did Henry and Nanny get married?
(a) 1886.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1879.
(d) 1899.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the book written?

2. What is Sadie's real first name?

3. Bessie jokes about arriving at which place?

4. What did the Delanys call racist white men?

5. Bessie talks about her little sister Julia and her fear of which of the following:

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