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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Quicksand - Chapters Six and Seven.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chicago, Helga finds a place to stay
(a) At the local YWCA.
(b) At the local golf club.
(c) With a roommate in an apartment.
(d) With an old friend.

2. Helga is angry at herself because
(a) Her colleagues like their jobs.
(b) Her teaching has been ineffective.
(c) Her students think she is too young.
(d) She is too beautiful to be a teacher.

3. Helga Crane loves
(a) Beauty and beautiful things.
(b) Being black and educated.
(c) Teaching.
(d) Classical music.

4. Helga projects a sense of
(a) Poverty.
(b) Indifference.
(c) Fear.
(d) Affluence.

5. Besides her uncle, what connection does Helga have in Chicago?
(a) She was born there.
(b) She worked in the factories there.
(c) She remembers going there as a child.
(d) Her grandmother is there.

Short Answer Questions

1. James Vayle, to whom Helga is engaged,

2. In her discomfort about not fitting in, Helga realizes

3. Helga tells her story to Mrs. Hayes-Rore who

4. Helga wishes that the school would not

5. The husband of Mrs. Hayes-Rore died

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