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

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

3. Dr. Anderson has assumed that Helga's good qualities are due to
(a) Her fine education.
(b) Her sense of morality.
(c) Her good breeding.
(d) The facade she wears.

4. Dr. Anderson would hope that Helga would, instead, prefer to
(a) Take another position on the faculty.
(b) Stay on and try to fix the problems at the school.
(c) Marry James Vayle and have children.
(d) Stay on in Naxos and date him.

5. Helga considers Negro society to be
(a) Much easier to live with than white.
(b) Simple and straightforward.
(c) Beneath her social status.
(d) As complex as white.

Short Answer Questions

1. Helga feels like a criminal when she meets Anne because

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

3. Helga found her job with the help of

4. Helga decides to ask her maternal uncle for help because

5. Helga wishes that the school would not

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