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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12: "Sonny" .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Abeeku's nickname for Effia?
(a) The Beauty.
(b) The Wise.
(c) The One.
(d) The Mystery.

2. How long has it taken H to save $5?
(a) Ten years.
(b) His whole life.
(c) Two decades.
(d) Six months.

3. Why does Willie insist they move to Harlem?
(a) They have high-paying jobs waiting for them.
(b) She wants to sing in the jazz clubs.
(c) She knows Robert cannot work in the mines.
(d) Lil Joe has found them a great apartment.

4. Why does Ness continue to work in the fields?
(a) Susan Stockham forbids her to work in the house.
(b) Ness chooses field work.
(c) Margaret hates her.
(d) Her scars are too grotesque and visible.

5. Why is Yaw skeptical of the concept of forgiveness?
(a) He believes that the angry are powerful.
(b) He wants to tend his anger like a flower garden.
(c) He has never felt forgiveness for his own wrongdoings.
(d) He believes it is a lesson to keep the oppressed subjugated.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are Willie's parents?

2. What sort of work does Ma Aku believe is bad luck?

3. What national law is passed the day of Timmy and Agnes's wedding?

4. Which is NOT a consequence of Robert's abandonment of the family?

5. Why does the Freeman family stay in Baltimore?

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