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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Guitar", Jimboy has come home and is doing what?
(a) Helping out around the house.
(b) Talking to his wife.
(c) Playing with his son.
(d) Playing his guitar and singing.

2. At the beginning of the story, what is Aunt Hager desperately trying to do?
(a) Get Sandy and herself into her cellar and get the door shut.
(b) Get Sandy and herself into an ambulance.
(c) Get Sandy and herself into a boat.
(d) Get Sandy and herself into a closet.

3. What does this woman think of Jesus?
(a) Stiff and white.
(b) Powerful and black.
(c) Righteous and black.
(d) Rich and white.

4. What happens to Annjee?
(a) She gets very sick and cannot work.
(b) She becomes very depressed.
(c) She gets a new job.
(d) She leaves to find Jimboy.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Jimboy fired?

2. How did Jimboy punish him?

3. Stanton largely has _________ social classes.

4. In "Dance", Aunt Hager has to run off to tend to Sister Land. Why?

5. What is not clear about Harriet?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Sandy's integrated school segregated? Are you surprised by this? Why or why not?

2. How is it revealed in this chapter that class structure and race is important to the people of Stanton?

3. What happened to Crowville? Why did this happen?

4. How does Sandy react to Tempy's gift? Why does he react this way?

5. How did Hager believe the blacks should deal with white oppression? Do you agree with her? Why or why not?

6. Why does Harriet run off with the circus?

7. How does Hager show she is a determined woman in this chapter?

8. How does Annjee defend her decision to go to Detroit?

9. How does Aunt Hager help others during and after the storm?

10. Why did many black people have to leave Stanton?

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