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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 133 - 174).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About how much money was Howard Hughes making in 1966?
(a) $30 million per year.
(b) $100 million per year.
(c) $50 to $60 million per year.
(d) $1 million per year.

2. Who is Lazarus's exasperating aunt?
(a) Fannie Wren Hunt.
(b) Hortensia Barden Parker Compton.
(c) Francis Bedlin.
(d) Minnie Razor.

3. Who wrote "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"?
(a) Zadie Smith.
(b) Toni Morrison.
(c) James Baldwin.
(d) Langston Hughes.

4. Who caught a rabbit for food in the story Mamiwata?
(a) Rastus.
(b) Pharaoh.
(c) Mandy.
(d) Ike.

5. Who arrives late to the dinner party that Randall is throwing?
(a) Siddiq.
(b) Ken.
(c) Alexa.
(d) Inder.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Alexa marry?

2. How does Howard Hughes's mother die?

3. What does Velmajean feel when the young man in the grocery store parking lot holds her hand in his?

4. Why did Inez Cross Chasten decide not to ever tell her husband about Hughes's offer to work for him?

5. What does Gloria Brown do for a living?

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