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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 28-30, Chicago, Elevator, Princess of the Blues.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hager asks her how Tempy likes her church. What is her response?
(a) It is very different and strange.
(b) It is very quiet.
(c) There is nothing "niggerish" about the church at all.
(d) It is no different than the Baptist church.

2. What does Sandy's friend say about Pansetta?
(a) She was "not the sharpest knife in the drawer."
(b) She was "as cold as ice."
(c) She was "easy as hell."
(d) She was "as sweet as pie."

3. What did John Lowdins do when a drunk white man attacked him?
(a) He killed him.
(b) He called the police.
(c) He did nothing.
(d) He shot him in the shoulder and drove off.

4. Sandy wonders if he could ever be __________ and whether the Lord even cared if someone was black or white, or male or female.
(a) Confident.
(b) White.
(c) Smart.
(d) Rich.

5. When he reached school, the teacher did what?
(a) Ignored him.
(b) Segregated him and two colored girls in his class.
(c) Welcomed him into the classroom.
(d) Yelled at him for being black.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was it surprising to find Aunt Hager this way?

2. Harriet says that __________________, black people cannot let brains go to waste.

3. What was Aunt Hager going to do to punish Sandy?

4. Hager dies and a large funeral is held with Tempy's high-class friends and who else?

5. Tempy and Arkins believed that to get respect, one had to do what?

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