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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. Who wrote the poem that Vonetta plans to recite at the rally in "Itsy Bitsy Spider"?
(a) Cecile.
(b) Emily Dickinson.
(c) Brother Woods.
(d) Gerndolyn Brooks.

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

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

4. What is the title of the poem that Vonetta plans to recite at the rally in "Itsy Bitsy Spider"?
(a) "We Real Cool."
(b) "A Snowy Evening."
(c) "Tomorrow's Road."
(d) "Power to the People."

5. Where was Huey Newton born?
(a) Little Rock, Arkansas.
(b) Monroe, Louisiana.
(c) Memphis, Tennessee.
(d) Oxford, Mississippi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cecile teach Delphine to work in "Movable Type"?

2. What is the name of Hirohito's father?

3. Where did Delphine witness police officers calling her father cruel names?

4. What word from the narrative means to brood silently out of disappointment or annoyance?

5. What does Delphine do in "Eating Crow" that constitutes this phrase?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is signified by the sisters cleaning Cecile's kitchen in "I Birthed a Nation"?

2. How has Cecile's behavior toward Delphine changed in "Movable Type"?

3. What does the title of "Movable Type" refer to in the narrative?

4. What leads Delphine to go to Safeway in "Big Red S"?

5. How would you relate the Black Panthers, flower children, and feminists in the novel?

6. How does irony apply to the situation where Delphine makes dinner in "Big Red S"?

7. What happens when Delphine and her sisters return home in "Wish We Had a Camera"? What are the implications of this scenario?

8. What does Delphine ask her mother for in "Expert Colored Counting"? How does Cecile respond?

9. What plan does Delphine reveal to her sisters in "San Francisco Treat"?

10. What does Kelvin reveal about Brother Woods in "Civic Pride"?

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