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

2. World War I has started and Tempy is helping out. Why?
(a) She is very thrifty and clever.
(b) She wants to show her support for the soldiers.
(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.

3. What did Tempy and her husband's friends avoid?
(a) Church and all black people.
(b) Cleaning supplies.
(c) All black people.
(d) Revivals, singing all the time and watermelon.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sandy's friend think about Sandy's relationship with Pansetta?

2. Why does Sandy go to the red-light district?

3. Why had Tempy been embarrassed of Hager?

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

5. To popularize the carnival, the carnival owners place coupons in the paper; if children bring them for "children's day" they can get what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Of what does this first chapter largely consist?

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

3. Should Sandy have dumped Pansetta?

4. How is Sandy's hotel job, as mentioned in "Hey, Boy!" bad?

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

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

7. Why does Tempy help out with the war effort?

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

9. Why is Sandy to avoid lower-class women?

10. How did Tempy change her life?

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