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

2. What word from the novel means to make white or pale?
(a) Cauterize.
(b) Impale.
(c) Blanch.
(d) Exonerate.

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

4. In "Civic Pride," Sister Mukumbu teaches the students about their rights and how to protect their rights against whom?
(a) Abusive domestic partners.
(b) The police.
(c) The KKK.
(d) Gang members.

5. How are the people of San Francisco described in "Wish We Had a Camera"?
(a) Hipsters.
(b) Yuppies.
(c) Beatniks.
(d) Hippies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a woman on the street give to Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern in "Wish We Had a Camera"?

2. By what name does Cecile refer to her daughters when she is arrested?

3. What is the phrase "eating crow" an example of?

4. What is the title of the poem that Vonetta plans to recite at the rally in "Itsy Bitsy Spider"?

5. What are Delphine and Fern tasked with counting at the People's Center in "Counting and Skimming"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Sister Mukumbu teach the class in "Civic Pride"?

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

4. How does Delphine respond to her teachings at the People's Center in "Rally for Bobby"?

5. What do Delphine and her peers learn about Bobby Hutton in "Rally for Bobby"?

6. What rule are the sisters breaking by cleaning Cecile's kitchen in "I Birthed a Nation"?

7. What is foreshadowed by the encounter with Hirohito in "San Francisco Treat"?

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

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

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

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