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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Kitty has a flashback in "Chapter 3," what does Dorothy tell her?
(a) That Kitty must go back to sleep.
(b) That she will be arrested soon.
(c) That someone probably has died.
(d) That the war is coming.

2. Whose face is on the notes used at the laundry?
(a) An old man.
(b) Two children.
(c) Kitty.
(d) Mrs. White.

3. How does Clare feel about going away to college?
(a) She is excited to get to redefine herself.
(b) She is nervous about her academic abilities.
(c) She is afraid of being homesick.
(d) She wants to get far away from home.

4. What event of the American Civil Rights movement does Clare say most affected her?
(a) The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
(b) The bus boycotts.
(c) The lunch counter sit-ins.
(d) The bombing of a church.

5. What does Clare say happened when her father tried to register her as white for school?
(a) She was given preferential treatment.
(b) He was caught lying.
(c) He was arrested.
(d) She was forced to take a test.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Chapter 1," where does the narrator say the soldiers sleep?

2. What does Jennie make Clare question in "Chapter 4"?

3. In "Chapter 1," what do the soldiers see as a sign of the decline of civilization?

4. What do the men and women farm on their land, in "Chapter 1"?

5. In "Chapter 1," what is in the house?

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