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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Sandy do while he was sick?
(a) He wrote a novel.
(b) He wrote poetry.
(c) He slept a lot.
(d) He started reading all of Tempy's books and magazines.

2. What happens when Sandy quits his job?
(a) His boss gets mad at him.
(b) Aunt Hager gets mad at Sandy.
(c) He cannot find another job.
(d) He does not get his last pay check.

3. Hager dies and a large funeral is held with Tempy's high-class friends and who else?
(a) Hager's friends.
(b) The family.
(c) The neighbors.
(d) Harriett's friends from the Bottoms.

4. World War I has started and Tempy is helping out. Why?
(a) She wants to show her support for the soldiers.
(b) She is very thrifty and clever.
(c) She likes to help others.
(d) In the hopes that if blacks and whites work together for victory that whites will respect blacks and treat them better.

5. Why did Hager stay with Miss Jeanne?
(a) She had no place to go.
(b) She did not know where to go.
(c) She had no training.
(d) She loved Miss Jeanne.

6. While working at the hotel, how did Sandy encounter Harriet?
(a) Cleaning bedrooms.
(b) Renting a room.
(c) With a man she was probably hired to have sex with.
(d) Answering the telephone.

7. How did Miss Jeanne die?
(a) She had a heart attack.
(b) From influenza.
(c) From old age.
(d) She walked off her balcony thinking her husband had come home.

8. On the way to Sandy's job, he was accosted by whom?
(a) A gay man.
(b) A black man.
(c) A thief.
(d) A white man.

9. With whom does Sandy spend a lot of time?
(a) Jimboy.
(b) Harriet.
(c) Hager.
(d) Sister Johnson.

10. When they go home, how does Sister Johnson feel?
(a) Furious.
(b) Sad.
(c) Anxious.
(d) Somewhat disappointed.

11. Who did Sandy begin to think was the villain?
(a) The men.
(b) His Aunt Harriet.
(c) Tempy.
(d) Pansetta.

12. One day after coming home from the hotel, Sandy finds Hager reading the evening paper; she sees an article claiming that Harriett and Maudel have been arrested for _____________ and fined "ten dollars and costs".
(a) Prostitution.
(b) Assault.
(c) Stealing.
(d) Jay-walking.

13. Why does Hager not want Sandy to work at a hotel?
(a) She thinks that bad things go on at hotels.
(b) He is smarter than most people who work at hotels.
(c) Sandy will have to work late hours.
(d) Hotels do not pay well.

14. When Sandy goes with his colored friends to the carnival, what happens?
(a) They can only go on certain rides.
(b) They are barred from going in.
(c) They cannot go on any rides.
(d) They cannot use their coupons.

15. Sandy saw Sister Johnson again and enjoyed listening to her talk about what?
(a) Sandy's family.
(b) Her neighbors.
(c) Her children.
(d) The people he had grown up with.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Tempy's employer left her as a token of her appreciation?

2. When Harriett appears on stage, what does she do?

3. Sandy is--somewhat unofficially--dating who?

4. What did Tempy call Sandy?

5. What is the first thing Tempy gives Sandy?

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