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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “Counting and Skimming” – “Eating Crow”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What group of people do Delphine and her sisters learn are fighting for their rights in "Counting and Skimming"?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Union workers.
(c) Migrant workers.
(d) Rural farmers.

2. When did Huey Newton co-found the Black Panther Party?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1965.

3. What information does Delphine relate when she calls home in "Collect Call"?
(a) That they are ready to go home.
(b) That their mother won't take them in.
(c) That they are out of money.
(d) That they have arrived safely.

4. What word from the novel means municipal?
(a) Civic.
(b) Annual.
(c) Litany.
(d) Incendiary.

5. What does Delphine ask her mother for on behalf of her sisters in "Expert Colored Counting"?
(a) A poem.
(b) A coloring book.
(c) A television.
(d) A newspaper.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Big Ma from?

2. What does Cecile claim the Feds hire to infiltrate families and report on black people in "Crazy Mother Mountain"?

3. How long ago did Delpine's mother abandon her family?

4. Who oversees a t-shirt printing operation in "China Who"?

5. At the airport, Big Ma looks favorably at a young black woman who is dressed like what public figure?

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