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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. What did Aunt Hager think of Jimboy's letter?
(a) He was lying and never did any work.
(b) He was very sick.
(c) He was teasing them.
(d) He was never coming home.

2. How did Sandy react to his punishment?
(a) He laughed.
(b) He ran away.
(c) He went to his bed and cried all afternoon.
(d) He yelled back.

3. What did Sandy find out when he returned home?
(a) Aunt Hager was ill.
(b) His mother had left to be with his father.
(c) Jimboy had left.
(d) Harriette had returned home.

4. When the storm passes, what has Aunt Hager lost?
(a) Her car.
(b) Her house is gone.
(c) Her children.
(d) Her entire town.

5. That night the white people came in, evicted the blacks of this town and did what?
(a) Burned the town down.
(b) Created an all-white town.
(c) Took over the town.
(d) Sold the town to whites.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did John Lowdins do when a drunk white man attacked him?

2. Harriet had been on bad terms with Aunt Hager. Why?

3. A man could work in Stanton his whole life without saving enough money to retire and leave something behind. To whom had this happened?

4. Sandy saw that his mother worked very hard and that Mrs. Rice, the blond, skinny white woman, was constantly doing what?

5. What happened to Sandy at the carnival?

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