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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who finds Mr. Singer's dead body?
(a) Mr. Kelly.
(b) Biff Brannon.
(c) Mick Kelly.
(d) Portia.

2. What does Dr. Copeland say when Jake enters his bedroom?
(a) He gets up and shakes hands.
(b) He asks him what he wants.
(c) He welcomes him inside.
(d) He tells him to get out.

3. Why does Mick think boys have it better than girls?
(a) Boys can wear their hair short if they wanted too.
(b) Boys are stronger.
(c) Boys can wear long pants or shorts.
(d) Boys can get a part time job and not have to quit school.

4. Where is Jake going to go after leaving town?
(a) He is going to Atlanta.
(b) He is going to go to Texas.
(c) He doesn't know, except that he'll stay in the South.
(d) He is going north.

5. What does Mick dream of being when she is twenty?
(a) A singer.
(b) A world-famous composer.
(c) A mother.
(d) A popular writer.

6. What happens to Dr. Copeland while he is at the courthouse?
(a) He is beaten by the sheriff.
(b) He is told to go home.
(c) He sees no one and goes home.
(d) He gets ill and passes out.

7. What does Mick Kelly write in her notebook?
(a) Poems.
(b) A diary.
(c) Short stories.
(d) Music.

8. What epidemic keeps Dr. Copeland busy during February?
(a) Measles.
(b) Pnemonia.
(c) Influenza.
(d) Scarlet Fever.

9. Why is Mr. Singer on the train?
(a) He is going to the Gulf on vacation.
(b) He is looking for a new home.
(c) He is going to visit his sister.
(d) He is going to visit his friend Antonapoulos.

10. What does Dr. Copeland tell his father-in-law he believed in?
(a) Justice for negroes.
(b) The Constitution.
(c) Liberty and justice for all.
(d) Equality for all people.

11. What grieves Dr. Copeland the most?
(a) He is too tired to care.
(b) He is going to miss his work.
(c) He is going away from his children.
(d) He has not accomplished what he had wanted to do.

12. What is Dr. Copeland supposed to do on August 21, 1939?
(a) Take a vacation.
(b) Move to his in-law's farm.
(c) Move in with Portia.
(d) Retire.

13. What does Biff Brannon find in the bathroom closet?
(a) His wife's perfume.
(b) Toilet cleaner.
(c) A bottle of pain pills.
(d) Alice's make-up.

14. Why does Portia suddenly take up drinking and arrive at her father's house drunk?
(a) Willie had both feet sawed off.
(b) She lost her job.
(c) Her husband left her for another woman.
(d) She and Highboy could not pay their rent and had to move.

15. What happens to Mr. Singer's memories of Antonapoulos?
(a) He starts to make stories about the memories.
(b) His memories are forgotten.
(c) His memories are exaggerated.
(d) He forgets the bad memories and maintains only the good ones.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Dr. Copeland decide he needs to talk to about his son?

2. Why isn't Mick getting enough sleep?

3. Who does Jake decide to go see after he remembers Mr. Singer was dead?

4. Why is Dr. Copeland put into jail?

5. What is Jack Blount's dream?

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