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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Jake Blount talking about when he was at the restaurant?
(a) About everything and nothing.
(b) About religion.
(c) About doomsday.
(d) A weird kind of politics.

2. What does Mick's father do for a job?
(a) A chef.
(b) A teacher.
(c) An artist.
(d) Repairs watches and clocks.

3. No matter what she is doing, what is always going on in the back of Mick's mind?
(a) Some place she wants to travel.
(b) A plan to run away when she turns seventeen.
(c) Some kind of invention.
(d) Some kind of piano piece.

4. Where did Mick Kelly take her brothers on Sunday morning?
(a) To a big, new house that was being built.
(b) To the church to look out from the steeple.
(c) To the playground to climb the sliding board.
(d) To a big, haunted house.

5. What does Dr. Copeland's daughter want them to stop doing?
(a) Quarreling.
(b) Living apart.
(c) Working.
(d) Going to church.

6. What does Mick say to Portia about God?
(a) That God is not real, but that Santa Claus is.
(b) She doesn't believe in God any more than she believes in Santa Claus.
(c) That God is Santa Claus.
(d) She believes in God and in Santa Claus.

7. What does Jake ask the three men sitting on the step?
(a) If they worked at the mill.
(b) If they ever rode the flying-jinny.
(c) If they knew a good fishing hole.
(d) If they had jobs.

8. Who does Mick "prom with" at her party?
(a) Bubber.
(b) Spareribs.
(c) Sucker Wells.
(d) Harry Minowitz.

9. What happens to Singer after Antonapoulos was gone?
(a) He dreams of his friend Antonapoulos.
(b) He relives memories of time with his friend.
(c) All the answers are correct.
(d) He walks and walks at night.

10. Who does Portia say her father is?
(a) A lawyer.
(b) A black judge.
(c) A farmer.
(d) A black doctor in town.

11. What is the essay contest supposed to be about?
(a) An essay on the person's life.
(b) An essay on how the writer would do away with the caucasian race.
(c) An essay on what the writer wanted to do when they have grown up.
(d) An essay on how the writer would improve life for the negro race.

12. How does Dr. Copeland feel as he says good-bye to Mr. Singer?
(a) At peace.
(b) Angry.
(c) Happy.
(d) Tried.

13. What was Mick doing in her brother's room that upset her?
(a) Taking a nap in his bed.
(b) Trying to make a violin out of a broken ukulele.
(c) Trying to paint some new pictures that didn't turn out.
(d) Trying to talk to him and he was ignoring her.

14. What happens when Willie and Highboy came inside Dr. Copeland's home?
(a) Dr. Copeland dozes off.
(b) Willie plays his harmonica.
(c) Highboy dances with his wife.
(d) They are all uncomfortable.

15. What happened when Mr. Singer takes Antonapoulos out to dinner?
(a) Antonapoulos refuses to leave without dessert.
(b) Antonapoulos drinks too much and passes out in the taxi.
(c) Antonapoulos orders everything on the menu then takes a nap.
(d) Antonapoulos orders half the dishes on the menu then won't leave.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mick do when she finds Bubber hiding in the tree house?

2. What is Lucille preparing her daughter to do?

3. As she sat on the landing listening to Miss Brown's radio, where did Mick want be?

4. What is a flying-jinny?

5. What about Jake Blount seems to stand out most to Brannon?

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