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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. What job is Sandy offered?
(a) Working as a bellhop's assistant at Drummer's hotel.
(b) Working as a taxi driver.
(c) Working as a shampoo boy at a barber-shop.
(d) Working as a shoe-shine boy at Drummer's hotel.

2. What did Tempy learn to do like this woman?
(a) Dance.
(b) Speak.
(c) Draw.
(d) Sing.

3. 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) Assault.
(b) Jay-walking.
(c) Prostitution.
(d) Stealing.

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

5. Sandy receives a note from his mother saying that she and Jimboy are ___________.
(a) In need of money.
(b) Coming home.
(c) Doing well.
(d) Want him to come live with them.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Sandy and his friends feel about how they are treated?

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

3. He wanted to be more like Harriet, refusing to do what?

4. On another occasion, who did Sandy see naked?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the other major event in this chapter? Are you surprised by this? Why or why not?

2. What takes place in the Pool Hall? Why?

3. What does Hager have to say about the soul and the world?

4. How did reading affect Sandy? Is this good? Why or why not?

5. What does Sandy get from working in a barber shop?

6. How has Harriett changed since she left home for the last time?

7. In "Children's Day," how does inequality even affect African American children?

8. Why does Sandy want to move to Chicago?

9. How does Hager support her beliefs regarding slavery?

10. What is the first major event in "Ten Dollars and Costs?" How might this be both a good and bad job?

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