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

2. Annjee said that she had found Sandy a job working as what at a Chicago hotel?
(a) A coat-checker.
(b) A bell-hop.
(c) An assistant manager.
(d) A shoe-shine.

3. Why are the kids not treated equally?
(a) Because they are rowdy.
(b) Because they are too young.
(c) Because of their race.
(d) Because there are so many of them.

4. One day, Mr. Logan recommends that he get a job where?
(a) At a hotel.
(b) At the barber shop.
(c) At a a bank.
(d) At a store.

5. Harriet says that __________________, black people cannot let brains go to waste.
(a) In a world full of hatred and greed.
(b) With all the problems in the world.
(c) In a white man's world.
(d) With the intelligence found in the black community.

Short Answer Questions

1. World War I has started and Tempy is helping out. Why?

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

3. Tempy had worked for a progressive white women fighting for what?

4. Hager argues that while whites hate blacks and blacks hate whites, hatred makes what ugly?

5. Why did Hager stay with Miss Jeanne?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Hager's funeral.

3. What has happened to Hager in "Note to Harriett?" Why might the title be named after the note sent to Harriett?

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

5. How has Harriett grown up? How is this revealed in what she says to Sandy and Annjee?

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

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

8. Why does Sandy want to move to Chicago?

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

10. Should Sandy have dumped Pansetta?

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