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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why isn't Mick getting enough sleep?
(a) She is helping her father at night.
(b) She has to take care of her baby brother at night.
(c) She is sneaking out of the house at night.
(d) She has to sleep on the sofa.

2. What does Jake tell Copeland's guests he wants to do?
(a) Take the boys to the state capitol, and tell the governor what happened.
(b) Take the boys to a special hospital in Texas to get help.
(c) Take the boys around, and tell people what happened and why.
(d) All the answers are correct.

3. What does Portia tell her father at the end of Book 2, Chapter 10?
(a) Colored people should unite and revolt.
(b) The best thing to do is be quiet and wait.
(c) Colored people should know their place.
(d) You need to be in bed.

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

5. Who does Jake decide to go see after he remembers Mr. Singer was dead?
(a) Portia.
(b) Simms.
(c) Dr. Copeland.
(d) Biff Brannon.

6. Why does Harry say he is leaving town?
(a) Because he is afraid he'll go to jail for what he did.
(b) Because he wantsd to marry Mick and she says no.
(c) Because if he stays his mother will figure out what they did.
(d) Because he can make better money in another town.

7. Why is Dr. Copeland put into jail?
(a) They think he is drunk, not sick, when he passes out.
(b) He doesn't go to jail.
(c) He fought back..
(d) He doesn't listen when he is told to go home.

8. What happens after the Jake and Dr. Copeland talked most the night?
(a) They both are hungry and thirsty.
(b) They realize they agreed on many things, but not on how to accomplish them.
(c) They realize they were hopelessly opposite in their views.
(d) They realize they both enjoy reading the same books.

9. What changes about Mr. Singer after he learns the news at the asylum?
(a) He changes from mild-mannered to irritable and cold.
(b) He picks a fight with the staff at the asylum.
(c) He can't stop crying.
(d) He leaves everything behind and goes home.

10. What was wrong with Etta Kelly?
(a) She has pnemonia.
(b) She has influenza.
(c) She is sick with a diseased ovary.
(d) She has bad cramps.

11. When Mick thinks about the last month, what two things can't she believe?
(a) That she was alone and unhappy.
(b) That Mr. Singer was dead and she was grown and working at Woolworth's.
(c) That school was starting soon and she was working.
(d) That Mr. Singer had committed suicide and that she had found him.

12. What does Jake's fellow workers think he is?
(a) A crazy man.
(b) A communist.
(c) A fugitive.
(d) A clown.

13. How does Dr. Copeland feel about Mr. Singer's death?
(a) He wishes he'd been there to help his friend.
(b) A dark sorrow fills his heart.
(c) He refuses to think about it.
(d) He doesn't care at all.

14. In Chapter 9 what is the Kellys biggest problem?
(a) Having enough money.
(b) Finding new boarders.
(c) Getting the house painted.
(d) Keeping track of the kids.

15. What does Jake think about the town compared to others he'd visited?
(a) It is the dirtiest.
(b) It is the nicest.
(c) It is the poorest.
(d) It is the loneliest.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Harry and Mick get the the Girl Scout camp?

2. What does Mr. Singer do to occupy himself when he misses Antonapoulos?

3. What does Dr. Copeland lack the strength to do?

4. What grieves Dr. Copeland the most?

5. What does Dr. Copeland say when Jake enters his bedroom?

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