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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through We Are in Wolf Town.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would Mother Ellen and her siblings stuff their mattresses with?
(a) Goose feathers.
(b) Straw.
(c) Hay.
(d) Spanish moss.

2. Where did the author live in Mississippi in the Prologue?
(a) Cascilla.
(b) DeLisle.
(c) Roxie.
(d) Bay Springs.

3. When did adults from DeLisle arrange visits to other communities in Alabama or Louisia to match children with marriageable mates?
(a) Early 1900s.
(b) 1880s.
(c) 1920s.
(d) Late 1800s.

4. Toward the end of the Prologue, what was the only sound that Ward could hear as she walked the streets of her hometown?
(a) Sound of a ball game.
(b) Music from car radios.
(c) Parrot.
(d) Arguing.

5. Where did Ward's father's father and his siblings live?
(a) Across the street from St. Stephen's Church.
(b) Above a store downtown.
(c) Behind the elementary school.
(d) On a plot of land outside of town.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children did Ward's grandmother Dorothy's parents have?

2. How was Aldon related to Ward?

3. What would Ward's Uncle Bookie buy for the kids in the Prologue?

4. How many other students were black in the school Ward attended in the late 1980s and early 1990s?

5. What color was Ward's father's first house in the Prologue?

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