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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 word from "Eating Crow" means bewildered?
(a) Collaborated.
(b) Exonerated.
(c) Impounded.
(d) Flummoxed.

2. How are the workers from the local store described in "Coloring and La-La"?
(a) Old black men.
(b) Old white men.
(c) Young white guys.
(d) Young black guys.

3. Who wrote the novel Delphine?
(a) Elizabeth Waterson.
(b) Madame de Staël.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

4. What does Delphine do in "Eating Crow" that constitutes this phrase?
(a) She cooks dinner.
(b) She calls her father and asks him to come and get her and her sisters.
(c) She tells her mother that she loves her.
(d) She takes back what she said at the People's Center.

5. What name do Delphine and her sisters hear the Black Panthers calling Cecile in "For the People"?
(a) "Sister Inzilla."
(b) "Sister Pat."
(c) "Sister Assata."
(d) "Sister Akila."

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Delphine go to buy food in "Big Red S"?

2. What is Cecile's last name?

3. How much money does the woman in the airport give to Fern in "Secret Agent Mother"?

4. What word from the novel means to make white or pale?

5. What word from the novel means municipal?

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