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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Delphine go to buy food in "Big Red S"?
(a) Safeway.
(b) Costco.
(c) Piggly Wiggly.
(d) Wegmann's.

2. What is the name of Hirohito's father?
(a) Brother James.
(b) Brother Woods.
(c) Brother Wilson.
(d) Brother Smith.

3. What word from the narrative means to brood silently out of disappointment or annoyance?
(a) Sulk.
(b) Deter.
(c) Invoke.
(d) Muster.

4. How many Black Panthers are with Cecile when she is arrested in "Wish We Had a Camera"?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

5. What is the shopping center and tourist attraction at Fisherman's Wharf called?
(a) Pier 19.
(b) Pier 39.
(c) Pier 42.
(d) Pier 17.

6. What is the name of Eunice's middle sister?
(a) Jessica.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Janice.
(d) Barbara.

7. Where was Bobby Hutton arrested while protesting the Mulford Act?
(a) Denver, Colorado.
(b) Little Rock, Arkansas.
(c) Cleveland, Mississippi.
(d) Sacramento, California.

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

9. Where do Delphine and her sisters go on the streetcar in "Wish We Had a Camera"?
(a) To the beach.
(b) To Chinatown.
(c) To the zoo.
(d) To the aquarium.

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

11. Where was Bobby Hutton born?
(a) Texas.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) Louisiana.

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

13. How is Hirohoto's mother described in "I Birthed a Nation"?
(a) Japanese.
(b) Filipino.
(c) African American.
(d) Chinese.

14. By what term does Cecile refer to Big Ma in "Eating Crow"?
(a) A country mammy.
(b) A redneck.
(c) A conservative prude.
(d) A hillbilly.

15. The planned Black Panther rally is to have a park named after whom?
(a) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Bobby Seale.
(c) Eldridge Cleaver.
(d) Bobby Hutton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Delphine decide she and her sisters will do in the end of "The Clark Sisters"?

2. What do Hirohito and his mother bring to Delphine and her sisters in "I Birthed a Nation"?

3. What name is listed as the author of Cecile's poem in "I Birthed a Nation"?

4. What do Delphine and her sisters eat upon arriving at the People's Center in "Counting and Skimming"?

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

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