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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Hager's response to their treatment?
(a) She wants to get revenge.
(b) She is also furious.
(c) She says there's no point to it, to forgive them and move on.
(d) She wants to protest the carnival.

2. Whose writings moved Sandy?
(a) Those of W.E.B. du Bois.
(b) Booker T. Washington.
(c) Harriet Tubman.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

3. How did Sandy feel about moving in with Tempy?
(a) Sad.
(b) Grateful.
(c) Anxious.
(d) Happy.

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. Sandy is--somewhat unofficially--dating who?
(a) Polly.
(b) Poinsetta.
(c) Peggy.
(d) Pansetta.

6. 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 steps outside.
(d) He buys the Chicago Defender.

7. To popularize the carnival, the carnival owners place coupons in the paper; if children bring them for "children's day" they can get what?
(a) Free rides.
(b) Free cookies.
(c) Free entrance.
(d) Free lemonade.

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

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

10. He wanted to be more like Harriet, refusing to do what?
(a) Live a simple life.
(b) Conform to the white folks' ways of perceiving him.
(c) Listen to his mother and aunt.
(d) Follow the laws.

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

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

13. The Pool Hall in the summer was lively and full of black people. Why?
(a) There were not many Pool Halls in town.
(b) The Pool Hall was the most popular place.
(c) They were not allowed to go to many other recreational areas.
(d) The Pool Hall had a very low entrance fee.

14. Harriet reminds Annjee of whose great dreams for Sandy?
(a) Tempy's.
(b) Sister Johnson's.
(c) Aunt Hager's.
(d) Jimboy's.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who did Sandy begin to think was the villain?

3. Who was with Pansetta?

4. When Sandy came home from work, how did he find Aunt Hager?

5. Why did Sandy want to get away from Tempy?

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