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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-9, White Folks, Dance, Carnival.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Conversation" records a conversation between Aunt Hager and who else?
(a) AnnJee.
(b) Sandy.
(c) Sister Johnson.
(d) Sister Whiteside.

2. Old Sister Johnson had lived through slavery, and after being freed, she and a large number of other blacks started up a town called _____________.
(a) Crowville.
(b) Hopeville.
(c) Negroville.
(d) Blackville.

3. In Stanton, why was there almost no work for black people?
(a) The whites would not let them work.
(b) Other minority groups came in a took away their jobs.
(c) Immigrants came in and took away their jobs.
(d) There was hardly any work for anyone.

4. Sandy had to run off and help his mother, who was ___________ at the Rice's, a rich white family.
(a) Teaching.
(b) Nannying.
(c) Cleaning.
(d) Cooking.

5. In "Guitar", Jimboy has come home and is doing what?
(a) Playing with his son.
(b) Helping out around the house.
(c) Talking to his wife.
(d) Playing his guitar and singing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Harriet and Jimboy go?

2. Stanton largely has _________ social classes.

3. Why did she want to get a job as a chambermaid at a hotel?

4. Harriet wasn't permitted to sit where at school?

5. How did the white men feel about working alongside a black man?

(see the answer key)

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