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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Sandy tires of listening to the other men, what does he do?
(a) He reads a nearby billboard.
(b) He opens up a local newspaper.
(c) He buys the Chicago Defender.
(d) He steps outside.

2. ____________ major events happen in "Ten Dollars and Costs".
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

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

4. What did Sandy find out?
(a) His Aunt Harriet had become a somewhat famous blues singer in St. Louis.
(b) His Aunt Harriet was a famous Hollywood actress.
(c) His Aunt Harriet had been arrested again.
(d) His Aunt Harriet was a world-famous artist.

5. Why was it surprising to find Aunt Hager this way?
(a) This was unheard of behavior for her.
(b) She is never this happy.
(c) She never cries.
(d) She cannot sing.

6. Tempy and Arkins believed that to get respect, one had to do what?
(a) Bleach their skin lighter.
(b) Leave the ghetto.
(c) Act, dress, eat, and earn money as white people did.
(d) Be educated.

7. Annjee and Sandy reached the "_________ belt" of the city.
(a) Black.
(b) Dirty.
(c) Poverty.
(d) White.

8. Tempy had worked for a progressive white women fighting for what?
(a) Organizations against animal cruelty.
(b) Women's suffrage.
(c) Peace in the Middle East.
(d) Equal rights for all races.

9. Sandy receives word from Annjee that she finally has the money for what?
(a) Buying a new home.
(b) His fare to Chicago.
(c) HIs education.
(d) Bus fare home.

10. Sandy is glad to get away from Tempy, as she was visiting what?
(a) A suffrage meeting.
(b) A museum.
(c) A friend in a nursing home.
(d) A Midwest Colored Women's Club.

11. Sandy resolves not to let who down?
(a) Tempy.
(b) Harriet.
(c) Aunt Hager.
(d) Annjee.

12. What happens when Sandy's school comes up during their discussion with Harriet?
(a) Annjee again teases Sandy.
(b) Annjee again ignores the topic.
(c) Annjee again discourages Sandy.
(d) Annjee again encourages Sandy.

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

14. Why does Sandy go to the red-light district?
(a) To find his friends.
(b) To learn about sex.
(c) He is lost.
(d) To find Harriet and give her a message.

15. Each night Sandy's mother would cry. Why?
(a) She wanted a better life for her son.
(b) She missed her mother.
(c) She had no news from Jimboy.
(d) She had no money.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was with Pansetta?

2. Why does Annjee say she needs Sandy's help?

3. Sandy decided for himself that he would be like ______________________ and get his education despite being impoverished.

4. Harriet reminds Annjee of whose great dreams for Sandy?

5. They received a note from Annjee saying that she and Jimboy had moved where and both had jobs?

(see the answer keys)

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