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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-12, Punishment, School, Hard Winter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While Aunt Hager was gone, who showed up and asked Harriet to come to a dance with him?
(a) Harriet's friend Joey.
(b) Harriet's boyfriend Mingo.
(c) Sandy's friend, Buster.
(d) Harriet's cousin, Bobby.

2. On Thursday afternoon, who comes home to visit?
(a) Hager's friend Sister Johnson.
(b) Hager's oldest daughter Tempy.
(c) Hager's youngest daughter Harriet.
(d) Hager's middle daughter Annjee.

3. "Hard Winter" takes the family from September to _______________.
(a) March.
(b) January.
(c) February.
(d) December.

4. A man could work in Stanton his whole life without saving enough money to retire and leave something behind. To whom had this happened?
(a) Aunt Hager's father.
(b) Tempy's husband.
(c) Sandy's father.
(d) Aunt Hager's husband.

5. Sister Johnson and Hager have long conversation about what?
(a) How many black men in the area beat their wives and how at least Jimboy didn't do that.
(b) How they are going to pull themselves out of this depression.
(c) How Jimboy is no better than other black men.
(d) How awful life is.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hager is determined to get Sandy through high school and make him into what?

2. Where did Harriet and Jimboy go?

3. What did Sandy eventually do at the dance?

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

5. What does Jimboy eventually do?

(see the answer key)

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