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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Delphine witness police officers calling her father cruel names?
(a) In New York.
(b) In the South.
(c) In Boston.
(d) In Maryland.

2. What does the phrase "eating crow" mean?
(a) To take the lead.
(b) To fail a class.
(c) To give up and go home.
(d) To admit you're wrong.

3. What do Delphine and her sisters do in the morning in "I Birthed a Nation"?
(a) They go to the grocery store.
(b) They clean the kitchen.
(c) They cook a huge breakfast.
(d) They go to the library.

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

5. What name is listed as the author of Cecile's poem in "I Birthed a Nation"?
(a) Assata.
(b) Nzila.
(c) Maria.
(d) Cecile.

6. What was Huey Newton's position in the Black Panther Party?
(a) Secretary.
(b) President.
(c) Treasurer.
(d) Minister of Defense.

7. What is the phrase "eating crow" an example of?
(a) Symbolism.
(b) Foreshadowing.
(c) A simile.
(d) An idiom.

8. Who wants to know why Delphine and her sisters are back in "Eating Crow"?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Eunice.
(c) Barbara.
(d) Pat.

9. Who oversees a t-shirt printing operation in "China Who"?
(a) Sister Nzila and Sister Mukumbu.
(b) Brother Woods.
(c) Crazy Kelvin.
(d) Sister Pat and Sister Mukumbu.

10. What does Delphine decide she and her sisters will do in the end of "The Clark Sisters"?
(a) Cook dinner for her mother.
(b) Clean her mother's kitchen.
(c) Write to the newspaper.
(d) Call her father to ask to go home.

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

12. How far away is the rally in "Eating Crow"?
(a) 3 days away.
(b) 1 week away.
(c) 9 days away.
(d) 2 weeks away.

13. Whom do Delphine and her sisters encounter on their way to San Francisco in "San Francisco Treat"?
(a) Cecile.
(b) Hirohito.
(c) Mrs. Ming.
(d) Crazy Kelvin.

14. What does Cecile teach Delphine to work in "Movable Type"?
(a) The electric organ.
(b) The printing press.
(c) The microwave.
(d) The oven.

15. What do Vonetta and Fern insist on doing a song from for the rally in "Rally for Bobby"?
(a) Peter, Paul, and Mary.
(b) The Beatles.
(c) Jimi Hendrix.
(d) Brenda and the Tabulations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vonetta decide to do with the poem of Cecile's in "I Birthed a Nation"?

2. How is the family described that takes pictures of Delphine and her sisters in "Wish We Had a Camera"?

3. What does Delphine tell Vonetta she cares more about than her family in "Itsy Bitsy Spider"?

4. By what term does Cecile refer to Big Ma in "Eating Crow"?

5. Who discovers Cecile's poem in "I Birthed a Nation"?

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